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Loading ...Meredith sent me a link to a Slate article, Must Read TV, about how the lives of your favorite TV characters are actually as interesting as the shows they’re on — in fact, some of the best programs and production companies are using blogs as co-narrative strategies, allowing hyper-fans access to spoiler information even before the shows they represent air — yes, the fictional character blogs are the sites that get the show exclusives. How is that for postmodernism? I can hear French literary theorists such as Jean Baudrillard, Jacques Derrida, and Hélène Cixous standing in ovation to this absolutely normal intentional absurdity. I am no Derrida, but I love the implications here.
Characters from The Office, The Closer, Grey’s Anatomy, Nip/Tuck, How I Met Your Mother, Monk, the soap opera One Life To Live, and the kids’ show Postcards From Buster all have blogs (and, in some cases, MySpace pages). Even the banker from Deal or No Deal has a blog, in which he confesses his intense dislike of the program’s contestants. Via Slate
(Yes, I am a student of Postmodernism and Literary Theory but don’t tell anyone — you can’t get a bloody job in Marketing or PR if you’re too intellectually-curious!)
Filed under: Character Blogging, Character Blogs, Corporate Blog, Corporate Blogging, Fictional Blog, Fictional Blogging
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I’ve stumbled across some fictional characters MySpace pages. It’s pretty well put together. Anything to make us feel like we’re part of a community. I think you could put some of Lacan’s theories into practice there…
Ah, Lacan!
One of the very most refreshing and enlightening things that I heard with my own two ears a couple of years ago was right “out of the mouths of babes:”
In discussing character blogs and the virtual assassination of them by most blog aficionados (including yours truly) at the time, he said -
“Janet, we know the difference between real and character blogs, what’s the big deal?”
Absolutely normal intentional absurdity? I think so.
And I am much less bothered by them now, knowing smarter, more youthful characters are just going along, enjoying the ride…
I think it all has to do with transparency. People just hate being fooled.