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I have recently talked a lot about great writing in modern media, using Mad Men and Battlestar Galactica as examples. Today I want to look at one of the core aspects of those articles - Character - but I want to do so in light of my last post - a discussion on the impacts of technology and business on entertainment.
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The second in a series of articles on great writing in modern media, today’s article focuses on the final episode of the first season of Mad Men. You can also check out the previous article, on Battlestar Galactica, as well as my original discussion of great writing. Arguably televisions greatest show, Mad Men is ripe with thematic and character interaction, making it possibly the best choice for an article on such a subject.
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This follow up post to yesterdays’ look into ‘great writing’ is the first in a series of blog posts where I examine examples of great writing in modern media. The idea is to view the construction of the writing in terms of plot, character, theme and their interaction. Today I’m looking at season two episode fifteen of the excellent sci-fi series ‘Battlestar Galactica.’
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When I think back to my childhood, most of my non-school related time involved me either playing outside with friends, or inside with videogames or watching television. In fact, when I think about the 90’s I think of a time when Americans, or maybe just the people I knew, spent the bulk of their leisure time watching tv. Looking back my most vivid memories were outside, with friends, family or at school, but I am still aware of all the time spent in front of the tube. Did I learn something? For all that time spent was I ever truly transported to some other place, did I ever gain an experience that I would not have had otherwise? While I do not want to sell tv short I feel those experiences were few and far between. At the same time I can usually recall the plots of books I read during the same period. Perhaps this is simply due to the huge disparity in time spent with each activity, but I think a lot has to do with how broad television content is while reading on the other hand is whatever you are interested in, when you are interested in it - not unlike the internet really.
