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A couple/few weeks ago, I wrote to Today (U.S. TV program), CBS This Morning and Good Morning America. How long does it take for them to get back to me? 2604:2000:7113:9D00:B81E:C008:E611:FADF ( talk) 16:00, 9 July 2016 (UTC)
Up above I wrote "Non-existent non-characters that do not appear in a movie or TV show have no feelings". That got me thinking. In some shows, someone who never appears is talked about in various episodes. We know their name, their relationship to the real character, and sundry other things about them. The wives and family of the MASH characters are good examples. Over time, we got to build up mental pictures of what sort of people they are.
Are these called " unseen characters"? I suspect not, because that applies to people whose very existence is a major structural part of the plot, such as in Rebecca (novel). An unseen character is one who, though not seen, "influences the action of the play". The people I'm talking about could easily be written out of the script without damage to the plot (it could be just "the folks back home" rather than "my wife Peg and my two sons Chip and Spud"). But they're in the script (in a minor way) and hence we are aware of them.
How would they be classified? -- Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 21:51, 9 July 2016 (UTC)
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A couple/few weeks ago, I wrote to Today (U.S. TV program), CBS This Morning and Good Morning America. How long does it take for them to get back to me? 2604:2000:7113:9D00:B81E:C008:E611:FADF ( talk) 16:00, 9 July 2016 (UTC)
Up above I wrote "Non-existent non-characters that do not appear in a movie or TV show have no feelings". That got me thinking. In some shows, someone who never appears is talked about in various episodes. We know their name, their relationship to the real character, and sundry other things about them. The wives and family of the MASH characters are good examples. Over time, we got to build up mental pictures of what sort of people they are.
Are these called " unseen characters"? I suspect not, because that applies to people whose very existence is a major structural part of the plot, such as in Rebecca (novel). An unseen character is one who, though not seen, "influences the action of the play". The people I'm talking about could easily be written out of the script without damage to the plot (it could be just "the folks back home" rather than "my wife Peg and my two sons Chip and Spud"). But they're in the script (in a minor way) and hence we are aware of them.
How would they be classified? -- Jack of Oz [pleasantries] 21:51, 9 July 2016 (UTC)