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Same for me except I started to notice characters that get no or very little backstory. Then I just sit and wait for them to die. Stupid brain.
by progre 4y ago
Same for me except I started to notice characters that get no or very little backstory. Then I just sit and wait for them to die. Stupid brain.
- cestith 4y agoIn particular if it's a serialized piece, like episodic television, and you meet "an old friend" of a major protagonist character (or in Star Trek a commissioned officer on the finitely-staffed ship) they've never mentioned before, the new character often literally exists to be a source of adversity and loss for the major character.
- zimpenfish 4y agoThis is Ebert's "Law of Economy of Characters" - "Movie budgets make it impossible for any film to contain unnecessary characters. Therefore, all characters in a movie are necessary to the story—even those who do not seem to be."