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Legba, if its true that better ratings can be achieved through good characters, that's because characters are a basic part of stories, and human beings like stories. Give me characters every time. In science fiction in general, they're what tend to be overlooked, and I guess that often extends to TV - the last two versions of the Star Trek franchise, for example, had characters who barely registered, and barely developed. Then again, Star Trek hardly ever had decent concepts either: oh look, another space-time anomaly that makes the crew act weird.
Concepts can be good, but - and I'm thinking of comics here, but it can apply to TV too - I don't have much interest in seeing an article a writer read in New Scientist regurgitated and shoehorned into a story. I can always read said publication myself, after all.
In the end, I can forgive a sligtly dodgy, formulaic or even illogical concept if there are characters who are well-written, engaging, and who can make me care. The reverse is usually not true. |
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