I mean, there is the Marvel Method where Stan Lee would brainstorm with artists, let them go off and do the brunt of the work, and take a writing credit for filling in dialogue.
More to the point, I guess nobody has as much head canon about Dr Crusher as McFadden. She’s spent decades creating back story for character motivation where it may not have existed on the scripted page. As I understand it that’s pretty much par for the course.
I’m pretty sure IDW have “support writers” in staff to make those ideas conform to industrial narrative standards and formatting…
nobody has as much head canon about Dr Crusher as McFadden
To the extent this is worth caring about, this is where the concern would lie, I think. The headcanon that gets a particular actor into the right frame of mind to do their best work is not necessarily something that can be fleshed out into a good or even cohesive narrative.
I mean, there is the Marvel Method where Stan Lee would brainstorm with artists, let them go off and do the brunt of the work, and take a writing credit for filling in dialogue.
More to the point, I guess nobody has as much head canon about Dr Crusher as McFadden. She’s spent decades creating back story for character motivation where it may not have existed on the scripted page. As I understand it that’s pretty much par for the course.
I’m pretty sure IDW have “support writers” in staff to make those ideas conform to industrial narrative standards and formatting…
To the extent this is worth caring about, this is where the concern would lie, I think. The headcanon that gets a particular actor into the right frame of mind to do their best work is not necessarily something that can be fleshed out into a good or even cohesive narrative.
True. And can she transform all of that to an arresting comics story? We don’t know.