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46 | Writing Great TV Characters w/ Javier Grillo-Marxuach

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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How Do You Write Genre Material About Character Drama?

Jeff Yang: How do you like walk the line between giving the audience sort of those tropes that they want, and that you know they want but not falling into cliche. The best ship blowing up sequence in my experience is the last act of Star Trek to the wrath of con right. And it's amazing how much your ego can take away from a great piece of fiction.

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