
146 | Screenwriting/Storytelling Archetypes: Using and Subverting Them (ft. Jessica Bendinger)
The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna
The Shadow Self in a TV Show
Lorian: I love the shadow side and how the light side of one archetype gave you actually an arc for your character, right? It gave you the journey of where she needed to go, which I think is so great. And it makes me think that shadow self makes me think of Harvey's operational theme. So if your main characters are rebel in a TV show, they're probably going to have both of those sides, warring inside of them,. Or even would you ever take another card and put like I did with preacher gambler to create that kind of disparateness that we have in yourself? Sure. That's a great idea.
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