Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-24732895-20140910035928/@comment-6383956-20140919074437

Paul.rea wrote: Spock had green blood for years without explanation.

Into the trial with two juries, Alicia picked two juries and started the trial in one day. An impossibility on both counts.

Everything you cited is from literature. Where clear world building must allay the readers expectations for a clear understanding of the text. That doesn't apply to visual mediums such as the graphic novel or television because the information is shown and doesn't have to be stated. It is all part of the whole. For instance, Star Wars didn't have to state that Tattooine w is in a bianary star system - they simply showed it. In the later spinoff fiction, authors explained it in a detailed way.

The blood of Spock is another example of this - with the explanation of copper based blood appearing in the spin-off fiction but not in any of the Original Series except maybe "Journey to Babel" but I don't think they explained the copper thing just called it T type or something. Either way, that episode was the way after they showed Spock had green blood without explaining it.

If you're applying literary standards to all of television - there's no hope for you.

As for the Lord of the Rings thing - I'm not a fan but I seem to remember the two old guys, the gray and the white, flying around some big tower thing flinging energy balls at one another. Which reminds me - "kung-fu time," the ability for characters to defy gravity, is a completely visual storytelling feature that, to my knowledge, has never been explained on screen. Spock, for all of those years, was not a human being. There was no point in time in which Spock was said to be a Homo sapien with green blood. The explanation for his green blood was "Vulcan's have green blood". Good try but -- no, no, it actually wasn't.

I can also pretty much guarantee that episode didn't take place in one day -- or even in just a couple days. If you find it necessary, despite having already proven in this thread that your memory for these things is virtually non-existent, I will re-watch the episode this weekend and give you a play-by-play of each time a new day occurs.

Actually, Paul, as I said I have many more articles concerning this principle. They're not all about literature. But here's the thing about fiction theory -- it's called that because it's about fiction in all mediums. Oh, look, this article talks about the very same principle except in reference to game design: https://www.google.com/url?sa=t&rct=j&q=&esrc=s&source=web&cd=5&ved=0CDgQFjAE&url=http%3A%2F%2Fblog.ihobo.com%2F2010%2F05%2Fgame-design-as-makebelieve-3-principles-of-generation.html&ei=UMYaVJ2kKcb5yQTlt4LgBg&usg=AFQjCNGoQsrrJFAPcWyN7g9gMiipmqjzVg&sig2=fFnQuM0jLJDKJhT4RgY83w&bvm=bv.75097201,d.aWw

Golly gee, it's almost like there's certain aspects of world building and storytelling that are always true? Gee willickers, who woulda thunk it?

You really AREN'T a fan of Lord of the Rings, are you? JEK pretty much blew apart your uh.... "observations" already but I just wanted to add.... Sauron is, at this point, a giant floating eye of power in the sky. So.... going to his kingdom on your secret mission via an airborne method is pretty much the opposite of good planning.