Is it because it is gimmicky? Is it because it is cliche? Or because dreams are just not interesting? What is the reason behind the rule?
Is it because it is gimmicky? Is it because it is cliche? Or because dreams are just not interesting? What is the reason behind the rule?
Ding ding ding. Dreams tend to be boring for everyone except the person who dreamed.Or because dreams are just not interesting?
And it is not meant as a prophecy/symbolism. It is just there to show the character's most heartfelt desires.
It is just there to show the character's most heartfelt desires.
Is it because it is cliche?
It's because many "dream" sequences are badly written. They're used to either "reveal" a plot element or something about the character -- such can be done more effectively via a "real" plot or character development, but many writers opt for the quick and dirty by using dreams.
I don't like dreams because they're gimicky. It's why I stopped watching the TV show Medium, despite the wonderful Patty Arquette (sp?). The whole - show the dream to the audience; the audience isn't aware at first it's a dream and then PA wakes up in her bed beside her husband and everybody releases a collective sigh of relief, thing- wore thin on me.
After the third episode of exactly the same opening I stopped watching. (I would have thrown the TV across the room but that get's costly.) I know the premise of the story is that she dreams things, but the repetition and the whole "is it/isn't it a dream" made me feel manipulated.
Medium is the first thing I thought of too. I quit watching after the second episode, and remember thinking how many agents and editors must now be puzzling over just why they were suddenly getting stacks of those blasted dream sequence openings.
I don't like dreams because they're gimicky. It's why I stopped watching the TV show Medium, despite the wonderful Patty Arquette (sp?). The whole - show the dream to the audience; the audience isn't aware at first it's a dream and then PA wakes up in her bed beside her husband and everybody releases a collective sigh of relief, thing- wore thin on me.
Medium always starts with a dream.
House always starts with a person getting sick.
CSI always starts with a crime.
Bones always starts with a disgusting corpse.
And then the show evolves from there.........
It's not a gimmick; it's their signature. A different story than if a dream is used as a method to get backstory into the plot, fool the reader, etc.
It's not a gimmick; it's their signature.
Medium always starts with a dream.
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Is it because it is gimmicky? Is it because it is cliche? Or because dreams are just not interesting? What is the reason behind the rule?