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Old April 20th, 2006, 12:46 PM

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Originally Posted by geo81
In most tv shows you need to have a down time in order to setup for the climaxtic plots. Look at Sopranos the show just drags when ever they cut to his family, but you need that in order for the good stuff to be exciting.
And you have to have the "down time" (or character development) for the audience to understand the exciting/good stuff. For example, how much could we understand about Hurley and the numbers if we'd never seen the episodes that explained where he got he numbers to win the lottery and how he came to have a superstition about the numbers being unlucky.
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