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What-dun-it?
Oct. 2nd, 2013 05:13 pmWe've got some new television shows starting up here in Japan. One of them that caught my eye apparently is a remake of an older show. From the ads, it is a TV mystery/police show, with the twist that the team -- they keep saying the SRI team -- gets the supernatural cases. For example, the ads show a man dissolving, and in one ad the team is looking up a path in the woods when suddenly an invisible ball of force rolls down the path, warping the light and breaking branches and bushes.
I was thinking about how you present this kind of a show. I think part of the trick is giving enough early clues so that the audience expects some sort of supernatural monster. If you just had an ordinary mystery, and then tossed in a supernatural cause at the last moment, I think the audience would be upset. Deus ex machina with a supernatural monster is kind of a cheat. But if you start with the body being clawed, the police baffled by clues that just don't fit normal causes, and then the SRI team shows us that the real problem is a were tiger or something, that could work. I may watch a few episodes to see how it goes.
I was thinking about how you present this kind of a show. I think part of the trick is giving enough early clues so that the audience expects some sort of supernatural monster. If you just had an ordinary mystery, and then tossed in a supernatural cause at the last moment, I think the audience would be upset. Deus ex machina with a supernatural monster is kind of a cheat. But if you start with the body being clawed, the police baffled by clues that just don't fit normal causes, and then the SRI team shows us that the real problem is a were tiger or something, that could work. I may watch a few episodes to see how it goes.
