dialogue schialogue

[schmerica]

Query for Smallville fandom folks with better memories than me: I realize that SV had so many weird pet peeves and rants it's hard to keep them all straight, so at the point this far away from all of them, I may simply be making stuff up. Am I imagining somebody's rant about certain dialogue formations? I seem to remember somebody on my friends list at one point responding to it at one point to explain that, no, all of the following ways of doing dialogue are technically correct--

1. "Hi," said Pearl-o.

2. Fox nodded. "Isn't that cool?"

3. "Sure." Nifra did some more jumping jacks. "I'm a spaz!"

4. "Oh my god," said Lyra, pushing her way to the front of the line. "What on god's green earth?"

So, am I on crack? Did I just take the weird present/past tense fights and let my mind decide the fandom was completely insane, or does my brain has some basis in reality for this?

Comments

[holyschist.livejournal.com]

Someone said they weren't?

I have a problem with people who think "Four-score and seventy years ago...," smiled Abraham Lincoln. is correct dialogue, but that's a different issue.