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When a highly-strung accountant inherits a failing community TV station, he finds unlikely performance geniuses at a small town talent competition to save the station.
I dunno. I still don't get the sense that he has skin in the game -- or at least enough of it in terms of (again) emotional investment. By that I mean that a sense of filial duty may be a necessary factor in the MC's motivation, but I wonder if it's a sufficient factor. Nor do I get a sense that theRead more
I dunno. I still don’t get the sense that he has skin in the game — or at least enough of it in terms of (again) emotional investment. By that I mean that a sense of filial duty may be a necessary factor in the MC’s motivation, but I wonder if it’s a sufficient factor.
Nor do I get a sense that the community is in desperate peril. (Emphasis on desperate.) Even if the local station is swallowed up by a big bad corporate colossus, there are plenty of other choices, aren’t there? In the age of cable TV and the Internet with scores of channels and hundreds of programs, how is it possible for a network colossus to “exploit elderly viewers”, hold them captive to its programming?
And isn’t the Internet becoming a viable (and cheaper) option for the streaming of local programming — who needs a broadcast station or license for local programming anymore? It seems to me that the Internet has become a boon, a godsend for small programming and niche markets. What’s to worry about here?
See lessWhen a highly-strung accountant inherits a failing community TV station, he finds unlikely performance geniuses at a small town talent competition to save the station.
I dunno. I still don't get the sense that he has skin in the game -- or at least enough of it in terms of (again) emotional investment. By that I mean that a sense of filial duty may be a necessary factor in the MC's motivation, but I wonder if it's a sufficient factor. Nor do I get a sense that theRead more
I dunno. I still don’t get the sense that he has skin in the game — or at least enough of it in terms of (again) emotional investment. By that I mean that a sense of filial duty may be a necessary factor in the MC’s motivation, but I wonder if it’s a sufficient factor.
Nor do I get a sense that the community is in desperate peril. (Emphasis on desperate.) Even if the local station is swallowed up by a big bad corporate colossus, there are plenty of other choices, aren’t there? In the age of cable TV and the Internet with scores of channels and hundreds of programs, how is it possible for a network colossus to “exploit elderly viewers”, hold them captive to its programming?
And isn’t the Internet becoming a viable (and cheaper) option for the streaming of local programming — who needs a broadcast station or license for local programming anymore? It seems to me that the Internet has become a boon, a godsend for small programming and niche markets. What’s to worry about here?
See lessWhen an innocent female assassin is framed for the murder of her partner, she must evade the utopian society she protects long enough to convince an unbelieving man from a rival family to take over his rightful place as leader of the community, a feat that places her and the realm she protects at risk.
It's not clear what the causal relationship is; that is, how being framed for murder jeopardizes of the utopian community. Or why being framed compels her to nag the guy into acting like a mensch. Also the plot seems to pivot on the guy, not the girl. She can only try to influence him; she can't MAKRead more
It’s not clear what the causal relationship is; that is, how being framed for murder jeopardizes of the utopian community. Or why being framed compels her to nag the guy into acting like a mensch.
Also the plot seems to pivot on the guy, not the girl. She can only try to influence him; she can’t MAKE him do what he needs to do. The biggest decision is his to make — not hers. So who is the protagonist? And who is the antagonist, the common foe?
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