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Re: Instant Plot: Just Add Forerunner.
Posted By: davidfuchs <davelikesdinos@gmail.com>Date: 9/22/11 4:03 p.m.

In Response To: Re: Instant Plot: Just Add Forerunner. (Ibeechu)


: You know, MacGuffin is the perfect word to describe what I was talking about
: in my above post. Lost's mysteries were always MacGuffins (not that that's
: a bad thing, not at all). But Halo treats its mysteries as the point of
: the story. Maybe that's why I couldn't make a connection.

Well, macguffins by definition are something incredibly important to the story and the motivations of the characters, but at the same time pointless in that they have no role *beyond* motivating everything. The maltese falcon is irrelevant except for that people want it; in the same way, sometimes the Forerunner relics act as "we must have" even if there's no clear evidence it's anything important. It's not quite as clear as other fiction, but it's the same element.

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Replies:

Podtacular story discussion thoughts...GrimBrother One 9/22/11 12:13 a.m.
     Re: Podtacular story discussion thoughts...Ibeechu 9/22/11 2:42 a.m.
           Great thoughts :-) *NM*GrimBrother One 9/22/11 10:12 a.m.
           Re: Podtacular story discussion thoughts...General Battuta 9/22/11 10:38 a.m.
           nicely doneMiguel Chavez 9/22/11 12:10 p.m.
           Re: ONI did itdavidfuchs 9/22/11 2:05 p.m.
     Instant Plot: Just Add Forerunner.Quirel 9/22/11 11:51 a.m.
           Re: Instant Plot: Just Add Forerunner.Archilen 9/22/11 12:13 p.m.
                 Re: Instant Plot: Just Add Forerunner.davidfuchs 9/22/11 2:10 p.m.
                       Re: Instant Plot: Just Add Forerunner.Ibeechu 9/22/11 2:18 p.m.
                             Re: Instant Plot: Just Add Forerunner.davidfuchs 9/22/11 4:03 p.m.
                 An Emerging Trend: Kill It NOW!Quirel 9/22/11 8:17 p.m.
     Re: Podtacular story discussion thoughts...padraig08 9/22/11 5:33 p.m.



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