Life As A TV Show
Explaining life as a television show is fantastic. It works brilliantly for getting you out of everything. The recent upsets in peoples' lives? Simple. The run up for a dramatic finale to the season. Me and Cooper joke about this all the time, how this is the final season because after this we all go our seperate ways (and we're OBVIOUSLY the main characters!) and so the series ends. Or there might be a another series starring Baird and all the 'new' cast members who just joined this season (yeah, I'm speaking to the year 12s!). In all seriousness, it's a great way to NOT be serious when things go wrong, and just shrug it off as another episode.
Anyway, and then I came up with a rather humorous idea about myself. I realised something. For a long time, it's been clear nothing happens to me. To be honest, this is good. I get to avoid any pain or anything. But it's simple. There just isn't time for any subplots involving me. They involve the more interesting characters. I'm too 2-dimensional to be fleshed out on screen, you see? From here, evolved my next interesting observation. If we ever got a bigger budget and became a movie. Now, it's all too easy to see yourself as the main character in your life, because, well, you're you. You see everything yourself. How can you not consider yourself the main character? Anyway, I came to the realisation. If I was in a movie, I'd be the ultimate sidekick. Think about it. There's no time for a subplot with the sidekick, he causes nothing and is the result of nothing. He just tags along with the hero who gets to do everything else.
What does this mean? Nothing. But it's funny. It does have one important implication, however. It means, if however (and by whatever strange means) I end up in the typical "We've got five minutes to disarm the bomb and save the girl!" situation, I'm SO lumbered with disarming the bomb.
Better get to work on those bomb disposal skills then.
Anyway, and then I came up with a rather humorous idea about myself. I realised something. For a long time, it's been clear nothing happens to me. To be honest, this is good. I get to avoid any pain or anything. But it's simple. There just isn't time for any subplots involving me. They involve the more interesting characters. I'm too 2-dimensional to be fleshed out on screen, you see? From here, evolved my next interesting observation. If we ever got a bigger budget and became a movie. Now, it's all too easy to see yourself as the main character in your life, because, well, you're you. You see everything yourself. How can you not consider yourself the main character? Anyway, I came to the realisation. If I was in a movie, I'd be the ultimate sidekick. Think about it. There's no time for a subplot with the sidekick, he causes nothing and is the result of nothing. He just tags along with the hero who gets to do everything else.
What does this mean? Nothing. But it's funny. It does have one important implication, however. It means, if however (and by whatever strange means) I end up in the typical "We've got five minutes to disarm the bomb and save the girl!" situation, I'm SO lumbered with disarming the bomb.
Better get to work on those bomb disposal skills then.
posted by Li at 10:01 AM
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