{D} 102: Driven by plot or character?

Tiny creative web sites, the death of the 3rd place, and a period piece at 30k feet

Drama is when characters drive plot, melodrama is when plot drives characters.

Exaggerated personalities, emotional appeals, a girl, standing in front of a boy, asking him to love her: melodrama.

Olympics coverage is melodrama. Telenovelas are melodrama. Criminal Minds and CSI and Grey’s Anatomy are melodrama. Anything by Pedro Almodóvar, any soviet expre…