Disposable characters
Breaking the Glass Slipper: Women in science fiction, fantasy, and horror
English - September 20, 2018 11:00 - 59 minutes - 48.1 MB - ★★★★★ - 20 ratingsSociety & Culture Homepage Download Apple Podcasts Google Podcasts Overcast Castro Pocket Casts RSS feed
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Redshirts. No sooner are they introduced than they are killed. The tension rises, there are beads of sweat on Kirk’s brow… now the audience knows the peril is real. These stock, disposable characters exist in a story solely for the purpose of being disposed of – kidnapped or killed, etc, to push the protagonist into […]
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