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shadowkatWill say this about George RR Martin and Game of Thrones on HBO, I haven't seen this level of detail regarding world building since JRR Tolkien.
Go here: http://viewers-guide.hbo.com/game-of-thrones/#!/map/
I was playing with the website tonight and oh my god. Go and play if you want to see how to do it right.
They have a detailed run-down of all the houses, all the house mottos, the mythology, the religion, the history dating back over 6,000 years or more, an extensive map, each character description, etc. Talk about your detailed fantasy universes. This one even has an anthropological breakdown.
I think the closest we come to this sort of thing in Sci-Fi TV may either be Doctor Who (?? although that also feels like fly by the seat of my pants tv and not detailed pre-planned tv - very hard to do that in tv anyhow - which is why 80% of it is fly by the seat of my pants, and the endings are so unsatisfying) or Babylon 5. Although the new version of BSG came really close to planned tv (about as close as I've seen to date - not saying it wasn't flawed, the final two seasons had lots of problems and the finale felt slapped together...but still). Star Trek sort of winged it - more make it up as I go along, similar to Buffy and Whedon in that regard. Actually I think JJ Abrahams, Gene Roddenberry and Joss Whedon are all fly by the seat of my pants or throw it up on the wall and if it sticks go with it type of writers. Most television writers tend to be - which is why George RR Martin left tv and wrote novels, the limitations of television got on his nerves - ie, having to do fly by the seat of my pants because I can't rely on a damn thing or explore character to the extent that I want to on a tv show. (I have admittedly not seen Fringe - so may be wrong about that one, but it was definitely true of Alias and Lost.) I respect someone who really outlines a verse to this extent, since I've done it myself and it is not easy.
Go here: http://viewers-guide.hbo.com/game-of-thrones/#!/map/
I was playing with the website tonight and oh my god. Go and play if you want to see how to do it right.
They have a detailed run-down of all the houses, all the house mottos, the mythology, the religion, the history dating back over 6,000 years or more, an extensive map, each character description, etc. Talk about your detailed fantasy universes. This one even has an anthropological breakdown.
I think the closest we come to this sort of thing in Sci-Fi TV may either be Doctor Who (?? although that also feels like fly by the seat of my pants tv and not detailed pre-planned tv - very hard to do that in tv anyhow - which is why 80% of it is fly by the seat of my pants, and the endings are so unsatisfying) or Babylon 5. Although the new version of BSG came really close to planned tv (about as close as I've seen to date - not saying it wasn't flawed, the final two seasons had lots of problems and the finale felt slapped together...but still). Star Trek sort of winged it - more make it up as I go along, similar to Buffy and Whedon in that regard. Actually I think JJ Abrahams, Gene Roddenberry and Joss Whedon are all fly by the seat of my pants or throw it up on the wall and if it sticks go with it type of writers. Most television writers tend to be - which is why George RR Martin left tv and wrote novels, the limitations of television got on his nerves - ie, having to do fly by the seat of my pants because I can't rely on a damn thing or explore character to the extent that I want to on a tv show. (I have admittedly not seen Fringe - so may be wrong about that one, but it was definitely true of Alias and Lost.) I respect someone who really outlines a verse to this extent, since I've done it myself and it is not easy.
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Date: 2011-05-26 09:24 am (UTC)