stunt_muppet

Hey, I get Q right away! Nice.

there's been talk of a hologram being made of Michael Jackson that would perform at a tribute concert next June, allowing MJ's brother Jermaine to sing a duet with him.

O___O There are some things from my skiffy that I just really don't want to become reality, and that's up there on the list. Not quite as high as "death rays" but still on the list.

I'm curious as to how much use can be made of archived footage, however, unless the technology emerged to use that archive footage and voice to simulate new movement based on extant patterns of motion. Astaire's clause in his will makes a bit more sense (preventing a biopic specifically), but it doesn't cover what happens if *he's* portraying himself in a film he did not agree to act in. I think, in that case, the "not agreeing to act in" is the crucial part; if someone else portrays him in a film, it's like him appearing in a film he might not have agreed to, which is the same thing happening with resuscitated archive footage.

I still find it unsettling, though.

If it's truly omniscient third-person...we never stay with any one character long enough to make the change feel jarring.

I hadn't thought of that, and I think that's one of the problems that multiple-POV fics have. Rather than just taking a quick peek into each character's head and going back out, a fic with a POV switch would spend a long time in one character's thoughts, so the change would feel more drastic and would impact the story more.

I almost never use first-person myself, now that I think about it; I wonder if it's technically correct or generally done to use multiple first-person POV, so long as they're clearly delineated? But I think that's also the province of longer fiction.