Yes. And get out of my head! I just started writing a SCC future fic tonight (I KNOW, I CAN'T BELIEVE IT EITHER), and I actually wrote a time paradox INTO THE FREAKING TWO PAGES I WROTE. So, yes, your pain, I feelz it.
YES! *clings* Because it demands to be written! Even though you tell it that you know what happens and your characters know what happens and the audience really isn't THAT stupid that you need to spoonfeed it in great big gobs of exposition, AND YET - you still have to have your characters just turn and face the damn camera and talk about how that jump forward went tragically wrong, and they went back to 1900, and they were trapped until they managed to get Tesla to build them a time machine, and yet when they jumped forward again, everything was ALL WRONG...
or, y'know, whatever your backstory is... *g* (which I just made up and has nothing to do with my fic, BUT is also an exposition fairy!)
I'm sitting at my desk, trying to figure out how to belly-laugh quietly! I need that! And stop reading my story! (J/k...although, now I feel wacky time travel needs to be written as well...)
"As you know, Colonel Carter, may I call you Colonel? Ah ha ha ha! I asked as if your opinion mattered. Back to the matter of hand. There is a death ray slowly coming climbing in to place above your planet. It will be achieve optimum orbit in approximately twenty-four of your hours and nothing can stop it! Nothing! Ah hahahahaha ahhh!" Bad guy falls in to pit of lava he had shipped to the moon. Fizzles out in to brightly colored flames due to the many metals that made up his armor
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or, y'know, whatever your backstory is... *g* (which I just made up and has nothing to do with my fic, BUT is also an exposition fairy!)
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How's that for exposition shorts?
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