Fiction is Hard
That is not entirely true. Making fiction is easy. You just need the right tools, a camera for visual media, a word processor, or computer for the written word, a microphone and a copy of Audacity for radio plays. You get the point. Making fiction well, that is hard. You need to learn style, prose, shot arrangement, cinematography, acting, how to play an instrument. There is all of that, and you need to be able to tell a story well.
Complete stories from start to finish are rare, and incredibly difficult. That is why when someone comes along who can do it, they are celebrated, and if they can do it consistently enough, they are deified. If a story is a basic three-act structure (beginning, middle and end) If one act is an egg, I can be forgiving if the other two acts are solid.
This is kind of what happened last night. Gabi and I have been catching up on American Horror Story: Asylum, which I would still recommend. We were big fans of last year’s presentation, and we had high expectations for this year. (To give you an idea of how much we like this show. Gabi refuses to watch much horror. She isn’t a fan of it. Not to the degree that I am, anyway.)
We loved last season, and this season was solid for the most part. I wasn’t a fan of the ending, however. I didn’t think it was bad, I just thought it fell flat. I felt the last scene took away from Lana’s character, made her a bit 2-demensional. Which is ashamed, because there isn’t a person on that cast who can’t act. I may have felt better about if she did something that made her more human. Collapse in a heap, scream, hell just start crying, whatever.
Sarah Paulson really breathed life into Winter’s character, don’t get me wrong. Between her, Jessica Lang, Evan Peters, and my favorite character this season, Lizzie Brocere’s Grace Bertrand they really knocked it out of the park. That ending, it just fell a little flat for me. I can forgive it of course. Endings are hard, fiction (done well) is hard. Even with the way the show ended, I am of the opinion that American Horror Story was fiction done very well.
There was one thing that I did like about the ending last night. Dylan McDermott. When he had that break down, and he moaned “Mom” (It may have been Mommy, I can’t remember correctly). That resonated with me, struck me at the core, so to speak. Like I said earlier, there is no one on that cast who can’t act.
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Complete stories from start to finish are rare, and incredibly difficult. That is why when someone comes along who can do it, they are celebrated, and if they can do it consistently enough, they are deified. If a story is a basic three-act structure (beginning, middle and end) If one act is an egg, I can be forgiving if the other two acts are solid.
This is kind of what happened last night. Gabi and I have been catching up on American Horror Story: Asylum, which I would still recommend. We were big fans of last year’s presentation, and we had high expectations for this year. (To give you an idea of how much we like this show. Gabi refuses to watch much horror. She isn’t a fan of it. Not to the degree that I am, anyway.)
We loved last season, and this season was solid for the most part. I wasn’t a fan of the ending, however. I didn’t think it was bad, I just thought it fell flat. I felt the last scene took away from Lana’s character, made her a bit 2-demensional. Which is ashamed, because there isn’t a person on that cast who can’t act. I may have felt better about if she did something that made her more human. Collapse in a heap, scream, hell just start crying, whatever.
Sarah Paulson really breathed life into Winter’s character, don’t get me wrong. Between her, Jessica Lang, Evan Peters, and my favorite character this season, Lizzie Brocere’s Grace Bertrand they really knocked it out of the park. That ending, it just fell a little flat for me. I can forgive it of course. Endings are hard, fiction (done well) is hard. Even with the way the show ended, I am of the opinion that American Horror Story was fiction done very well.
There was one thing that I did like about the ending last night. Dylan McDermott. When he had that break down, and he moaned “Mom” (It may have been Mommy, I can’t remember correctly). That resonated with me, struck me at the core, so to speak. Like I said earlier, there is no one on that cast who can’t act.
http://www.wilfredrrobinson.com/?p=95