Character vs. Content
I've been looking at movies, TV shows, and cable series lately. I've been watching them and have found out that a lot of what I like in these shows are the characters in them. Of course series shows on TV have a distinct advantage over movies and that is we follow a character or characters through the course of a season. Movies can only get it right in about two hours and it's all on the director and actor to make sure that the audience follows our protagonist throughout the film. I'm not going to say one is easier then the other. There are some series that do it right, and there are some series that fail to illicit our attention. In movies I've always gone by the rule that if I am not convinced in the first ten minutes of the film that I'm interested in the character or characters I lose my attention to the story. If I don't believe in a character in a series I change the station, so some series on TV have to meld co...