Talk:Through line
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Does this really merit its own article? Seems like it could be merged into Stanislavski's system. -- Metahacker (talk) 18:58, 29 December 2011 (UTC)
To narrow[edit]
Many dictionaries define through-line as:
- (mainly Austral & US, Canadian) a theme or idea that runs from the beginning to the end of a book, film, etc
The book The Official TED Guide to Public Speaking describes throughline as
- “There’s a helpful word used to analyze plays, movies, and novels; it applies to talks too. It is throughline, the connecting theme that ties together each narrative element.”
Should the topic of this article be merged or split to use this more common meaning of the term? H@r@ld (talk) 12:12, 28 May 2017 (UTC)
Disagree. The article as it stands today (about 24 hours after the above concern) seems to encompass these definitions. I found this phrase in a news article and ended up here looking for a definition. The entry explained things well for me. The sense I got was that "through line" = theme or thread and that it's a technical phrase borrowed from film/theater. Amead (talk) 17:39, 29 May 2017 (UTC)