Why the ending of the Good Wife failed
A single book, or a series of three books, can make use of the circle ending, but a 7 season long TV show will have to lay some memory lane tiles down first.
Category: Analysis
How Grant Ward from Agents of Shield managed to fool me
I spent so long convinced that Grant Ward wasn’t what he was accused of. He had me completely fooled – and I applaud him for that.
When a character has no development.
Every writer, reader, and fiction lover knows that characters have to develop, have to change, over the course of a story. I am going to do something very bold now, I am going to...
Intended interpretation or personal interpretation
Some stories have a clear and intended meaning, something which you are suppose to have learned by the time you put it down, other stories are harder to define because their meaning depends on who is reading them. But both have value.
4 lessons on writing good deaths from Torchwood
An analysis of the deaths in Torchwood, and what we as writers can learn from them.
The Doctor vs Davros, argument analysis
An analysis of the heartbreaking exchange between the Doctor and Davros in the series four finale of Doctor Who.
Richard III, 1955 and 2015 versions compared
A comparison of two adaptions of Shakespeare’s Richard III. The first is from 1955 and stars Sir Lawrence Oliver, and the second is from 2015 and stars Benedict Cumberbatch.
Bad guys and good guys who a secretly the same
A walk through of how “good” vs “bad” in modern fiction doesn’t have anything to do with actions.
Bobbi vs Bakshi, argument analysis
A rhetorical analysis of a Agents of Shield scene where Bobbi Morse interrogates Sunil Bakshi.
Rhetorical arguments everyone should know and recognize
A few argument types everyone could benefit from knowing.