On Wed, Jan 18, 2012 at 12:47 PM, Dave Sikula <[email protected]> wrote:
> Just curious. I bailed out of "Damages" after season 1 because I just > couldn't take all the crazy plot twists. From your description, it > sounds like that became their "gimmick" (for lack of a better term), > and I'm wondering if that is indeed the case. > I'm not sure if I would call their gimmick (or signature) "crazy plot twists" (though they do have those). I think their gimmick is starting and ending episodes with brief flashes of what will eventually be the ultimate (or penultimate) episode, but which at first either do not make any sense, or are calculated to give the "wrong" impression. The main body of each episode gradually provides more information about that last episode, and the flashes themselves gradually open up and provide more information, so that by the end the viewer has a context for making sense of what they have been seeing all season. The body of the episodes have plot twists, and the meaning of the flashes twist or shift as the show progresses. -- TV or Not TV .... The Smartest (TV) People! You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "TV or Not TV" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [email protected] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/tvornottv?hl=en
