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UniqueFD

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Is 'Doing Nothing' an oxymoron?"

The original context for this question is that I have been asked what I'd like to do tonight and replied, "I've been so busy lately, I'd like to do nothing".

Can I actively do nothing? I would appreciate some feedback on this. If, in thinking around the subject, you find some other amusing/infuriating oxymorons, please share them!!!

(Also, I just think the word is great - OXYMORON!! :) )

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"If it could have gone wrong earlier and it didn't, it ultimately would have been beneficial for it to have." : Murphy's Ultimate Corollary
 
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>A new espisode, which contained some flashback scenes, would not be an all new episode.

The context of those flashbacks makes the whole story new.
 
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The story may be new, but the episode is not "all new".


Tracy Dryden

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For you are crunchy, and good with mustard. [dragon]
 
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This is where I wonder what the difference is between "story" and "episode".
 
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In this medium, the difference between a story and an episode is that an episode is one event, or airing, in a season of events. A story is a complete dramatic work. You may have one story per episode, or you may tell one story across several episodes. You could also have several stories being told within a single episode, or any combination of the above.

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So, when a story depends on flashbacks, to be told, the episode is not new?
 
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Part of the episode may be new, and part of the episode may include flashbacks. If part of the episode includes flashbacks, then I would not consider it an all new episode, but simply a new episode.

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For the purposes of this discussion, when CC refers to "flashbacks" he doesn't mean just in the literary sense, he means using actual film footage from previous episodes. That's why they're not considered to be an "all new" episode: because some of the film footage was previously aired.

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TSDragon said:
...when CC refers to "flashbacks" he doesn't mean just in the literary sense...
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I'm sure that he is also referring to behaviour during the '60s/'70s.
<grin>

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I guess context is important here.

If I film episode I, then later I film a dream sequence, in episode II, which consists of frames previously aired, I am filming a brand new episode. The context those "previous" frames are airing is very different from their relevance in episode I.

Although I understand your point that if I literally re-air scenes from a previous episode, the current episode is not new. Possibly because the old scenes are shown verbatim and do not add anything to episode II, right?
 
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I'm not sure that I agree that "all new" requires that no footage have been previously aired.

If the footage is used in such a way that what we've already seen takes on an "all new" meaning, I think the attribute can still be applied to the episode. I can't think of any television examples, but one from movies comes to mind. In "Memento", the movie first shows the end of the story, then reshows the end of the story in a larger context, then gives more context, etc. The audience has to keep reassessing the meaning of what they've seen before.


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spewn said:
these ladies are you new aunts.
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My New Aunts apparently had no standards whatsoever in choosing their husbands.

Thus, we call them [blue]Un-culls.[/blue]

Tim [smile]


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Un-culls! Good one, Tim!

Tell me, what is it the new one says?

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Spewn,
I haven't solved your first 'what am I' riddle, yet, but was wondering if you had a few more. If so, can you start a 'Riddles' thread?

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Brilliant, Dave, even if it's not what Spewn is looking for!

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Actually, Tony, my response was to DrJavaJoe's posing of that same question 25 hours earlier than Spewn's posing. I believe it is the correct answer to both of their "posings", correct, Spewn and Joe?

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I believe that UniqueFD was referring to the other Dave's post.


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Tony,

All I know is this:

At her wedding my New Aunt Says "I Do."

At her Unwelding ([blue]iron[/blue]ically), and by the court's order, my Comply Aunt says "Adieu."

Tim



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Tim
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Dave (aka Santa),
Sorry to cause confusion - I did mean the "DPlank" Dave. I'll try to be more explicit in future. (BTW, your riddle answer was definitely right!!)

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