Whedon Err

“People want more. It is a genetic program. If you have enough, you want something esle…”

So goes the pitch made in Dollhouse premier. But it isn’t proven, though it is certainly tested, therefore, it is false. The viewers, and acolytes will repeat it by remembering the statement as factual. They won’t remember that it was a TV writer that had someone tell them this.

Writing Sux

this:

You mess with them—and that is how you welcome them. Joining, in other words, happens through a process of opposition, irony, and dissent. If you’re going to join a messed-up club, you have to pass the messed-up entrance exam. You enter into the sect only when you push back, when you finally say, Listen, I don’t care what you tell me. I know it’s a bad idea, but I’m determined to do it, and I will do it.

from: http://www.newyorker.com/online/blogs/books/2013/02/elizabeth-gilbert-versus-philip-roth-is-writing-torture.html?mbid=gnep&google_editors_picks=true