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| ======Citroen DS Incident====== | ======Citroen DS Incident====== | ||
| - | ==== Origin of term ==== | + | ==== Origin of the term ==== |
| A term coined by [[offtopic:Hendryk]] in an older thread discussing the re-imagined //Battlestar Galactica// series. [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=2423465&postcount=680|He was frustrated]] by the high level of parralelism between the TV show's setting and the present, as evidenced by this quote : | A term coined by [[offtopic:Hendryk]] in an older thread discussing the re-imagined //Battlestar Galactica// series. [[http://www.alternatehistory.com/discussion/showpost.php?p=2423465&postcount=680|He was frustrated]] by the high level of parralelism between the TV show's setting and the present, as evidenced by this quote : | ||
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| He continued his criticism in a later post, postulating the main idea behind the term described on this page : | He continued his criticism in a later post, postulating the main idea behind the term described on this page : | ||
| - | //**Well, my question was rather: why an actual song from [[ah.com s ah writing slang|OTL]]? Because I feel like filing this under the “Citroën DS incident”, namely a breakdown of suspension of disbelief caused by too specific a reference to OTL.**// | + | //**Well, my question was rather: why an actual song from [[OTL]]? Because I feel like filing this under the “Citroën DS incident”, namely a breakdown of suspension of disbelief caused by too specific a reference to OTL.**// |
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| Though the TV show criticized isn't in the alternate history genre, Hendryk's idea could also be easily applied to AH stories and timelines with implausible or right-out-of-nowhere parallelism - especially ones with a [[pods/pods|POD]] far back in history. Too much parallelism - particularly one without any reasonable explanation on part of the writer - could end up being a massive plot hole or at least dealing a heavy blow to the reader's/viewer's willing suspension of disbelief. The Citroen DS Incident could be considered "the lazy approach to world-building" - whether in fantasy, sci-fi, alternate history or any other speculative fiction genre. While writing AH, the best solution is to either avoid it alltogether or try to make it as subtle and plausibly explained as possible. | Though the TV show criticized isn't in the alternate history genre, Hendryk's idea could also be easily applied to AH stories and timelines with implausible or right-out-of-nowhere parallelism - especially ones with a [[pods/pods|POD]] far back in history. Too much parallelism - particularly one without any reasonable explanation on part of the writer - could end up being a massive plot hole or at least dealing a heavy blow to the reader's/viewer's willing suspension of disbelief. The Citroen DS Incident could be considered "the lazy approach to world-building" - whether in fantasy, sci-fi, alternate history or any other speculative fiction genre. While writing AH, the best solution is to either avoid it alltogether or try to make it as subtle and plausibly explained as possible. | ||
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| + | Far too many parallels with [[OTL]] does not an alternate history make ! Parallelism should be used sparsely, creatively and wisely, otherwise it is a very lazy method for writing AH. | ||
| ==== An example of this phenomennon ==== | ==== An example of this phenomennon ==== | ||