"He was exposing character premises for what they were".
It was a clarifying moment for everyone involved, exposing character and weakness and vulnerability.
There are a lot of VCs who hate TheFunded for exposing character flaws, and posting term sheets.
io9's Charlie Jane Anders observed that the TV episode "The Categories of Life", written by Jane Espenson, exposed the character's "human vanity" by showing that she has "started to believe her own hype".
In this genre the story unfolds in a character's own words, exposing the character's thoughts and feelings in real time rather than describing them from the distancing perspective of a disembodied narrator.
It shapeshifts throughout three counterlives — none of them entirely distinct from the other — in which different lives are lived, different histories are exposed, different characters embody and bury the others, projecting through a prism that blindingly continuously redefines the lives of its characters.
From pursuing "Midnight Movies" I became privy to Divine eating dog sh*t in Pink Flamingos; from stumbling on the Bob Fosse section I was introduced to Liza With A "Z"; from studying the Tennessee Williams area I was exposed to characters I would later on in life come to closely identify with, such as Richard Burton's portrayal of the Reverend Shannon in Night of the Iguana.
It's one thing when the writer can artfully expose a character's narrative and backstory, but in the case of this 32-year-old writer she worried about how others would judge her personal story.
But where the tabloids end and fiction begins, the authors of alternate histories root through a mix of real and imagined dirty laundry, exposing a character called, say, "the Princess of Wales" to indignities including scrubbing public bathrooms (in Mark Helprin's "Freddy and Fredericka") and managing a McDonald's (in Peter Lefcourt's "Di and I").
The BBC drama made changes "with a view to exposing a character, or adding humour or irony to a situation".
