In a creative writing course in undergrad, our stories would be read aloud to the group, then they'd analyze it in front of us. About 80% of the time they'd read things into the story we never intended, misinterpret bits and pieces of it, etc. My brother, a conceptual artist, once told me that all art is interactive. That the viewer interacts with it, and adds their own perspective or baggage to it, which makes it interesting. It's more interesting after people have interacted with it.
I know this is true of my stories...people often find things in them that I never intended.
Often I think viewers interaction with a work of art makes it more interesting. I know that was true with Buffy, and I think it is true here as well. But, it is important to keep it fun and not...get too invested. (I say that, knowing full well that I was ahem, an obsessed fan of Buffy, haven't been that way really with anything since. Doctor Who isn't serialized enough or consistent enough to grab me the same way Buffy did...or it just doesn't hit the same...chords. I think it's hard to explain why I fall in love with the art I do or why I get obsessed with it.
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Re: Bill = Will = Agency
Date: 2 Jun 2017 01:40 am (UTC)In a creative writing course in undergrad, our stories would be read aloud to the group, then they'd analyze it in front of us. About 80% of the time they'd read things into the story we never intended, misinterpret bits and pieces of it, etc. My brother, a conceptual artist, once told me that all art is interactive. That the viewer interacts with it, and adds their own perspective or baggage to it, which makes it interesting.
It's more interesting after people have interacted with it.
I know this is true of my stories...people often find things in them that I never intended.
Often I think viewers interaction with a work of art makes it more interesting. I know that was true with Buffy, and I think it is true here as well. But, it is important to keep it fun and not...get too invested. (I say that, knowing full well that I was ahem, an obsessed fan of Buffy, haven't been that way really with anything since. Doctor Who isn't serialized enough or consistent enough to grab me the same way Buffy did...or it just doesn't hit the same...chords. I think it's hard to explain why I fall in love with the art I do or why I get obsessed with it.