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Invisible <voi### [at] dev null> wrote:
> >> I mean, seriously. Any moron can write a bunch of gibberish that doesn't
> >> make sense. But where's the entertainment in that?!
> >
> > I don't think everybody can write scripts of that quality. It requires
> > expertise and talent.
> It takes expertise and talent to write scripts which *make sense* and
> are *interesting*. The X-Files lacks both of these qualities in spades.
You are now confusing two things:
What you are talking about is "coming up with an interesting idea for a
story" (or what you consider being an interesting idea) versus writing a
good script for a TV series episode.
Even if someone has a wonderfully ingenious idea for a script, that doesn't
mean he has the knowledge, expertise and talent to write a script that can
actually be used to film an interesting episode.
A script requires more than just an idea. You need a lot more around it.
You need dialogue, you need events to progress through the story, you need
to describe the settings so that the people making the episode can stage
the scenes... Just having a good idea is certainly not enough to write a
good script.
On the other hand, even a mediocre idea can be turned into a good script
in expert hands. Moreover, just writing a script good enough to be filmed
in the first place requires expertise. Not everybody is able to do that.
Most people could perhaps *learn* to do that with time and hard work, but
most people are certainly not born with the innate ability.
> [OK, you can argue about whether or not something is "interesting". But
> whether something makes sense or not is pretty objective. It's hard to
> find something interesting when it's unintelligable gibberish.]
Just because you find it "unintelligable" (sic) gibberish doesn't mean
that everyone else does.
Knowing that to you all C programs and all regular expressions are
unintelligible gibberish, I'm kind of not surprised.
--
- Warp
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