New Plots?

Humans have a natural tendency to see patterns even where none exist.

If you are not going to see a each and every plot (apart from deliberate copies, legal or otherwise) as sui generis, then you have to put those plots in categories. There will always be someone who will see a way to suggest that such as such a plot is an example of one or other category. (In fact, in the list Pyan provided above, "Comedy" and "Tradegy" seem, by the definitions given to them, to be almost the same, give or take the bit about death.)


To summarise: the only place to find a new plot is a cemetary. And even that's not a certainty. (We're not talking about parts of plots, I assume, but whole ones. :rolleyes::))
 
Ursa major said:
Humans have a natural tendency to see patterns even where none exist.
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That.................applies to soooooooooo many things its not even funny. I mean, a tendency would mean that you would automatically make the assumption based on previous experience, which would create a pattern of tendency, so would then all patterns be based on all perceptions having a pattern or are all patterns perceived?

What came first, the chicken or the egg?
 
Which was first, the chicken or the egg?

The correct answer is Chuck Norris.
 
I think folks just like the number 7.

The 7 Habits, the universe created in 7 days, the G7 (now G8, or is it G9?), the 7 Oceans, the 7 Continents, the 7 Layers of Heaven, 7 Basic Plots etc. etc.
 
Reminds me of kiddy Prince William. It seems one of his favourite jaunts as a tot was flushing a shoe down the toilet, and his Dad called him Willie Wombat.
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A classic plot. A child flushes something down a toilet and the adults spend many hours and much labor getting it out. It happened at my house a few days before Christmas. Of course Prince Charles could laugh it off; he can afford to bring in a plumber.

Many dramas are enacted when there are small children in the house.
 
Xelah said:
It wouldn't have been "The Starfighters" . . . would it?

You'd think with a name like that, it would be something kickass with stuff going boom every few minutes, and a buff, shirtless guy spraying bad guys with lead, and a large chested woman being rescued heroically by our shirtless guy.

No. It's about refueling military aircraft midair. Epic stuff.
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Was she large arsed as well? I guess she was, or she'd have been a bit lacking in balance and proportion.:D
 
I knew someone would mention the bottom line at some point....
 
dreamhunter said:
I think folks just like the number 7.

The 7 Habits, the universe created in 7 days, the G7 (now G8, or is it G9?), the 7 Oceans, the 7 Continents, the 7 Layers of Heaven, 7 Basic Plots etc. etc.
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Plus also i was born on the 7/7. Freaky or what. :eek:
 
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