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brightknightie) wrote2023-02-11 12:18 pm
brightknightie) wrote2023-02-11 12:18 pm
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I recommend OSP's latest Trope Talk ("The Heart")
When I recommend the fantastic Overly Sarcastic Productions to folks who haven't yet met this unique YouTube channel, I usually recommend an episode from their "Miscellaneous Myths," "Classics Summarized," or "History Hijinks." I often link directly to their latest "Previously on OSP" for a frenetic two-minute montage of their delights. I never recommend a "Trope Talk" cold. Never...
Until now! Check out yesterday's new episode: "Trope Talk: The Heart" (15:37). This is (apparently) the last in a series analyzing the storytelling utility and deployment of each member of the famous "five-man band" trope (leader, lancer, brawn, brains, heart). Perhaps unexpectedly, considering how "the heart" (formerly known as "the chick") is often deprecated and downplayed, this analysis is not only an absolute banger, with a gem of a pop-media history timeline in the middle, it may be the most useful in the series. Are you writing a team? Does your team have a character, any character, performing the core structural storytelling job of the heart, which is actually not -- contrary to popular belief (sarcasm!) -- getting kidnapped? If not, you could wind up with a team that just won't jell, and here's, structurally, a possible reason why.
So. Yeah! ;-D
Until now! Check out yesterday's new episode: "Trope Talk: The Heart" (15:37). This is (apparently) the last in a series analyzing the storytelling utility and deployment of each member of the famous "five-man band" trope (leader, lancer, brawn, brains, heart). Perhaps unexpectedly, considering how "the heart" (formerly known as "the chick") is often deprecated and downplayed, this analysis is not only an absolute banger, with a gem of a pop-media history timeline in the middle, it may be the most useful in the series. Are you writing a team? Does your team have a character, any character, performing the core structural storytelling job of the heart, which is actually not -- contrary to popular belief (sarcasm!) -- getting kidnapped? If not, you could wind up with a team that just won't jell, and here's, structurally, a possible reason why.
So. Yeah! ;-D
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Thanks for the rec.
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(I'm going to change the "fka" I used in my post above to the full, spelled-out "formerly known as," just in case anyone reading this post doesn't know "fka" at a glance, and concludes that I misspelled "aka." I was trying to make a cheeky remark about limited vision, not endorse it!)
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A while back I watched a video that broke down The Divine Comedy, and I think it might've been this person. It was done with the same lovely snark.
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And yes, indeed, it's very likely that you're remembering Red's take on Dante!
(Red specializes in mythology, literature, and media. Blue specializes in history, architecture, and gaming.)
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1. Recently, they had a lovely 2-part take on the Trojan War. Blue did the history and archaeology ("History Summarized: Mycenaean Greece & the Bronze Age Collapse") and then Red did the literature and mythology ("Legends Summarized: The Trojan War").
2. Red's hilarious retelling of the medieval Chinese classic The Journey to the West ("Legends Summarized: Journey to the West") introduced me to this story and has enchanted me to the point where I am not only currently reading Volume 2 (of 4) of an unabridged, scholarly translation of the original hundred-chapter, poetry-studded, Chinese novel, and listening to podcasts about it, I have actually started writing fanfic for it. (Shhh! I shouldn't be writing fanfic until I've at least finished reading the whole novel! But it's so, so amusing...) (JttW got its first abridged translation into English in the early twentieth century, and its first unabridged in the 1980s. It wasn't translated into German in full until 2017!)
3. And here's a video that shows off Red's research, analysis, art, and "turn the tables" storytelling insight all together in one piece: "Miscellaneous Myths: Hades and Persephone."
Enjoy!
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