Writer. Mostly of comics. Mostly The Beano. Most notably, Dennis and Gnasher.
But also cartoons.
Whitley Bay.
Nigel Auchterlounie
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...I was once watching a show I like.
& was pleased that my wife joining me.
Someone showed up to great fanfare. My wife asked, "Who's that."
I had to pause the TV & deliver a history lesson.
I then thought the shows days were numbered.
No one was going to catch this episode, be engaged & want more
Bit harsh.
...it's not character development or destruction it's regression.
He's back to New Hope Han but old.
It's cool to live out of a van in your youth but not in your seventies.
He's a charming, funny, cold-blooded killer.
A long enough winning streak sees Han kill Jabba and take over.
Han's other path is rebellion general with super clear moral code.
That's where Han was headed in Return of the Jedi.
Where Han ends up in Awakens is... lame.
Another thing that kills a TV series is backstory and lore.
A TV show needs its die hard know all fans, sure.
But a show needs more casual viewers too.
And it needs people to start watching
Having to know a encyclopaedias worth of facts to watch locks new viewers out...
On character development in film.
I didn't like what they did with Han Solo in the Force Awakens.
Where was Han's arc headed in a New Hope before he got pulled into the rebellion?
He's a clever, talented guy.
Follow that through to a conclusion,
& he becomes Jabba the Hutt.
Because he shot first-
I don't like character development in drama.
I'm broadly against it.
It works well in films and is death to TV shows.
A character developing in a film is satisfying.
They start out flawed, an asshole maybe.
Then through experience or love or whatever they learn and grow.
Nice...
But that journey-
Character development works well in film. It's nice to see someone get there shizz together.
Do that in TV and eventually you're watching a bunch of well adjusted people reacting well to situations.
For TV you need the opposite.
You need character deterioration.
The journey from asshole to nice person is also a journey from interesting character to boring.
You couldn't start Up, Groundhog Day or Clueless with those characters how they were at the end.
Han Solo over the first 3 films was slowly evolving, he remained great but New Hope Han was best.-
