04-11-2018, 08:14 AM
(This post was last modified: 04-11-2018, 01:31 PM by dicappatore.)
(04-11-2018, 05:09 AM)rpmaluki Wrote: I don't understand the debate on "writer's intent" beyond what actually happened on screen. What they wrote was their intention or else we would have seen something different. We can't twist what actually happened on the show if it actually contradicts what we saw with our own eyes and heard with our own ears in order to fit a narrative that's sympathetic to our own views of these characters and not as they were written, directed and acted. Our interpretation will never trump what amounts to "facts" presented in filmed footage.
Ironically enough, the writers' intent has often been questioned or disregarded entirely on this forum particularly when these writers have gone out of their way to expound on their own work in various interviews, deleted scenes included in DVD packages. So why even bother harping on their so called "intent" that's not even supported either by writers' interviews and additional material often found in official packaging for the show? What we perceive and what was intended will often than not be two very different things due to being fed incomplete/contradictory information. For example, my perception of N/J was that J didn't love N as much as he loved her or she didn't love the person before her only what she wanted him to be but the reality is that she has shown/done something that proves she did in fact love him such as curing him of the muse's influence on him, helping him with the zombie infection, re-grimming him. Unfortunately this was undone with her hexenbiest rage trip to destroy Nick no matter what so this may have inadvertently reinforced my perception as factual. My perception of J's culpability implicit in her role in the events at the end of S4 vs her saying she didn't know. The only thing settles this issue at the end of the day, is what I see on screen and my version of how/why things play out the way the did will become secondary.
We all see things differently but that will never change what actually happened on the show no matter how passionately we feel about certain elements that are perhaps not to our tastes. For me, the only "writers' intent" that matters, is the show as it's screened, what's in the DVD packages which includes deleted scenes, episode commentary etc and writers' interviews given throughout the duration of the show. I may not like every pertaining to the aforementioned but at least it's something concrete from the writers themselves and not my own views spun to substitute opinion as fact.
rp, i have no clue either where this is going. The only thing I can think of is for some to, somehow, continue the show in it's absence by looking at situations from various angles to expand and continue the show on these threads. I, myself miss the show, with all its holes left unanswered and sometimes I wish I had the patience and the ability to rewrite some of the episodes or at least condense some of the main characters arcs as its been done under the "Fan Creations".
But my kid pushed me to get involved into watching "Game of Thrones" and it's taking up any free time I have. She bought me the 1st two seasons to get me started and I have to admit, I find it a bit intriguing with less nudity that I had expected, as seen so far. I already have a favorite character and it is Arya Stark. The second I saw her shoot that arrow, in Episode 1, she caught my eye. The ones I hate, lets just say it is a long list.
You know you are OLD, when you see the Slide Ruler you used in college selling in an ANTIQUE SHOP!!