TV Peeve

[marydell]

If character #1 is going to have repeating flashbacks of character #2's death, is it too much to ask that the death scene they are replaying in their head (and therefore on screen) be shot from character #1's own point of view?

Comments

[alecaustin.livejournal.com]

That would cost money, though. The whole *point* of that kind of flashback (usually, anyway) is to reuse old footage.

(Cynical media economics boy is cynical.)

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

I'm watching ER from the beginning (yeah, whatever, hush) and Carol Hathaway (in the first episode) is having flashbacks of her own drug overdose, and the Dramatic Shots of her in the hospital, which is what she's having flashbacks of, are shot from someone else's POV.

hate.

hatehate.

[juliansinger.livejournal.com]

Yeah, in the case I cited they're rerunning shots from the pilot.

BUT STILL.

[marydell.livejournal.com]

LOL awesome! That's way worse than the one that's currently annoying me. I'm watching MI-5 (AKA spooks) and C#2, running toward C#1, gets shot from behind, and C#1 keeps replaying the killer's POV of the death. So, irritating but not totally ridic.

Ridiculous Justifying Bloviation

[browngirl.livejournal.com]

Memory can be edited by emotion, right? So maybe what the character is actually flashing back to is not the image as they saw it but their own guilty recollection. "It's my fault #1 died" ==> "I envisioned #1's death from the shooter's perspective" ==> "The memory I keep flashing back to is in the shooter's persective".

... or something.

Re: Ridiculous Justifying Bloviation

[marydell.livejournal.com]

Oo, I like that one.

[ashnistrike.livejournal.com]

PTSD improves theory of mind, didn't you know? Makes it easier to take the perspective of others.

[marydell.livejournal.com]

LOL, that must be why I'm so good at reading people!

If only I could have a flashback from the point of view of a rich person setting the combination on their safe.