Stephan Paukner :: syslog

Write lots of dialogs and boring stories about conflicts, intrigues and affairs. Take some actors, many costumes and simple stage designs. Make a TV show out of it. The episodes should only consist of dialogs, closeups to faces, conflicts, costumes, closeups to faces and dialogs. The viewer should be bored and surprised that actually “nothing” happens during the whole episode, i.e., no explosions, no blood, no action, no tension. At least this was my impression whenever I zapped over the TV show “The Bold and the Beautiful”.

But there’s another TV show which at first sight is located in a complete opposite corner but finally consists of the very same ingredients: The characteristics I mentioned above could just be a description of another episode of... Star Trek! A sci-fi freak actually is living from explosions in space, laser guns, fantastic alien worlds, alien technology and aliens themselves. But a sci-fi freak will soon notice that Star Trek is definitely not Star Wars.