Mikey J are you actually old enough to drive?
That's hopefully a compliment. lol 
I do have a license, but it's really my older sister's who is 12.
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Quote: SlagA @ March 19 2009, 8:44 PM GMTI guess it can be called 'better than real speech' in that it's an artificial construction (of the scriptwriter) that is concise, free from tautology, repetitions (unless for character's sake), in which every sentence conveys either plot, character statement, or joke payload. Real speech is rarely any of those and is often tedious as opposed to gripping TV. A 10 minute conversation in real life can often be whittled down to its bare essence.
Exactly, SlagA. Thank you!
Quote: SlagA @ March 19 2009, 8:44 PM GMTMelmoth - those character names would have most script readers putting it down. One 'comedy' name is a maybe, but littering the show with such screams newbie.
Pick up any good tutorial or reference book on character development. Does it mention character naming? Probably not. Criticising characters' names is nit-picking, splitting hairs. Neither Orson Scott Card's Character and Viewpoint, nor Holly Lisle's excellent 'Create a Character Clinic' does. If you read these, you'll think characters don't have to have names. Indeed, in some stories, they actually don't. Yet even in these, we feel we know the character, because the author has introduced him to us.
Regarding the comment, "One 'comedy' name is a maybe, but littering the show with such screams newbie." Well, I interpret the 'scream' as avant-garde or innivotive.
Again, lovely chatting with you, but I have to get back to the novel I'm working on; it's entitled "The Marination Of Gwendolyn's Cerbral Cortex In Aspic" The story is about a selfless college student, Gwendolyn, who is engaged to an eccentric Wizard. It takes place on a world that has all but forgotten its magical past - Earth. The changing role of women in cultures plays a major role in this novel.
My name's Jonny2 - Goodnight!
Quote: jonny2 @ March 20 2009, 2:13 AM GMTMy name's Jonny2
Are you sure?
Yeah, Jonny1 is his older brother. Much easier than thinking up different names for each birth.
Quote: jonny2 @ March 20 2009, 2:13 AM GMTI have to get back to the novel I'm working on; it's entitled "The Marination Of Gwendolyn's Cerbral Cortex In Aspic" The story is about a selfless college student, Gwendolyn, who is engaged to an eccentric Wizard. It takes place on a world that has all but forgotten its magical past - Earth. The changing role of women in cultures plays a major role in this novel.
My name's Jonny2 - Goodnight!
You want to watch gotmilk doesn't read this and do you for plagiarism. 
Quote: SlagA @ March 20 2009, 3:27 PM GMTYou want to watch gotmilk doesn't read this and do you for plagiarism.
Quote: Marc P @ March 20 2009, 3:42 PM GMT
Almost Marc, just needs about another four faces on there.
Quote: shaggy292 @ March 18 2009, 3:55 PM BSTWasn't he the guy from Buzzcocks and Magazine?
Yes.