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Haven't you heard the expression before? Characters who are believable, who evolve during the series, and give you the impression they are of flesh and bone, not just flat images on a TV screen who lack any development and for whom you don't really care?
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Well, that's the diference between one-dimensional and multi-dimensional characters. I was just wondering why they should have three dimensions, specifically.
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Not to get dragged into a Nixpicking argument, but doesn't "3-dimensional" mean, in this context, that the characters are "life-like"? Because people in real life have 3 dimensions, and so on...
-------------------- Yes, you're despicable, and... and picable... and... and you're definitely, definitely despicable. How a person can get so despicable in one lifetime is beyond me. It isn't as though I haven't met a lot of people. Goodness knows it isn't that. It isn't just that... it isn't... it's... it's despicable.
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Well, I just don't think I've ever heard a multi-dimensional character's number of dimensions specified before. I was under the impression that a one-dimensional character was one that only had a single element to his/her/its character. For example, your typical bad guy whose one dimension is "he's evil". A more fleshed-out character would have more dimensions, but not an exact number.
I never thought it was used in terms of "flat" and "not flat" characters, since that would make the flat characters "two-dimensional", and I've never heard that used.
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Were you really nine years old when you joined Flare?
-------------------- Picard: Mr. Crusher, what's our maximum speed this week? Wesley: [checking manual] Uh, 9.4, sir. Picard: Very good. Take us to Warp 9.8 then. Wesley: Aye, sir. Warp 9.2 it is.
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