Showing posts with label TV. Show all posts
Showing posts with label TV. Show all posts
Tuesday, March 26, 2019

Plotting Board, Part 6

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Copyright 2019 by Gary L. Pullman In this post, I offer a few tips on plotting, many of which are implied, if not directly ...
Thursday, March 21, 2019

Plotting Board

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Copyright 2019 by Gary L. Pullman In this post, I offer a few tips on plotting, many of which are implied, if not directly stated in...
Thursday, March 22, 2012

How "Buffy" Was Written

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Copyright 2012 by Gary L. Pullman In The Watcher’s Guide, Volume 2 , the television series’ writer Jane Espenson explains the procedure ...
Friday, March 25, 2011

Noxon's Buffy the Vampire Stinkers

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Copyright 2011 by Gary L. Pullman There’s a lot right with Buffy the Vampire Slayer , but there’s a lot wrong with it, too, and crit...
Sunday, October 3, 2010

Bits & Pieces: Story One-Liners

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pulman No, I’m not endorsing USA Today . In fact, its political bent slants opposite of my own. However, I’...
Thursday, September 23, 2010

Adolescent and Adult Themes

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman In any television series, a few (sometimes, many) episodes will be dedicated to establishing and de...
Saturday, April 3, 2010

Plotting By Trial and Error

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullman A demon dimension opens under the library of a southern California high school. An alien, sent to earth ju...
Thursday, February 25, 2010

Horror vs. Humor: A Case in Point

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Copyright 2010 by Gary L. Pullma “The Haunted House” episode of The Andy Griffith Show could easily have been a horror story rather than an...
Wednesday, October 29, 2008

Terror Television

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman In Terror Television: American Series, 1970-1999 , John Kenneth Muir describes the premises upon which man...
Friday, July 25, 2008

Verizon’s Version of Horror: The Dead Zone Advertisements

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman Advertisers are a creative bunch. They use all sorts of persons, places, and things to sell us everything ...
Tuesday, March 25, 2008

The Cliffhanger

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Copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman Charles Dickens As we mentioned in a previous post, Charles Dickens invented the cliffhanger as a way to ...
Wednesday, March 19, 2008

Leftover Plots, Part III

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copyright 2008 by Gary L. Pullman   As a result of considering “leftover plots” or plot-seeds or springboards or whatever we choose to call...