Hmmm...

[mf_luder_xf]

Ho hum. Yet another XFish plot.


Question: Any scoop on Supernatural?— Chris
Ausiello: Much like almost every other character on television lately, Sam and Dean will be involved in a hostage crisis later this season. A disgruntled security guard will hold up a bank when nobody believes one of his out-there theories for why the place got robbed.

Grabbed from jdsampson


Yeah, ring any bells?

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[mahoni.livejournal.com]

Yes, but, well, honestly, I dare anybody to track down the originator of any plot, even (especially?) genre-specific plots. I think the similarities to a specific show just stand out more when a person is that much more familiar with it, you know?

I've always been of the perspective that there are only so many plots/character types/whatever in the world, and that the fun thing is seeing how different authors/shows present them. If I love a set of characters, I generally get excited when I find out they'll be involved in some situation I've seen done before, because I want to see how they, specifically, will deal with it, you know?

Case in point: my husband snarked that this week's episode of Bones seems AWFULLY FAMILIAR, i.e. because it was done in the season 5 finale of CSI. He's absolutely right, but I'm still blissed-out excited because I can't wait to see how Bones, Booth, Hodgins and the other squints handle the situation and solve the case. You know?

[mf_luder_xf]

Oh, you're right. It's just like music. There are only so many melodies out there unless you invent an entirely new system like Stravinsky did.

It was just calling them out-there-theories that really made it stick out to me. I am very excited to see how they do it, though.