Show types - drama series
I've noticed there are other ways of differentiate between the different types of series out there...
In the last 5 or so years much has happened when it comes to the layout of how shows are built and what the viewer expects in a show.
One kind is the show that most easily can be described by pointing at 24. One season has one goal or problem rather and every episode is just a small part in a big total storyline - somewhat like a movie - with twists and turns along the way and a big payoff in the end. Instead of resolving anything throughout each episode, you are instead left with a cliffhanger at the end of each episode.
The other kind is like most sitcoms are built up - with one full story that has nothing to do with the rest of the season and the viewer is presented with the payoff at the end of each episode instead of a big cliffhanger.
Some shows are very true to one of these categories, but most are a combination of the two.
24 is very true to the last category, and so is Lost.
And then there are the shows that combine and seems to have some episodes that are very story driven (often around start and end of season), and then the rest of the episodes play around their concept more than drive the story forward. Often there can be small variations to the all over story (who dates who etc.) but basically there really is no progress.
I'm getting bored with those kind of shows, because they lead med to believe i can expect exiting stuff but then just slow down and give you nothing.
Smallville is a great example.
Around season finales and season premieres a lot of stuff happens, they progress the story and Clark often gets a new superpower or something.
But then the rest of the season is left to this:
-each episode is some new villain with a new power from kryptonite, he almost wins but then Superboy[hehe] stops him in the end of the episode
-some drama about him or Lana, either back together or no more - just to keep som romantic drama going
-back and forwards about Lex Luthor as a friend or not
More shows have the same type of layout, and most recently I've already seen some of it in Threshold and The 4400 among others. A new freak takes center stage instead of progressing the story.
It is ok for shows like numb3rs to have an episode-based storyline, but for shows that pretend to be a dramaseries with a plot to unravel - i need to have the progress being made for each episode. There are too many talented writers out there to make bad shows nowadays.
Prison Break is brilliant so far. Just brilliant.
Ok, enough for now...
Posted by fkolsen, 10/10/2005 4:26pm
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In the last 5 or so years much has happened when it comes to the layout of how shows are built and what the viewer expects in a show.
One kind is the show that most easily can be described by pointing at 24. One season has one goal or problem rather and every episode is just a small part in a big total storyline - somewhat like a movie - with twists and turns along the way and a big payoff in the end. Instead of resolving anything throughout each episode, you are instead left with a cliffhanger at the end of each episode.
The other kind is like most sitcoms are built up - with one full story that has nothing to do with the rest of the season and the viewer is presented with the payoff at the end of each episode instead of a big cliffhanger.
Some shows are very true to one of these categories, but most are a combination of the two.
24 is very true to the last category, and so is Lost.
And then there are the shows that combine and seems to have some episodes that are very story driven (often around start and end of season), and then the rest of the episodes play around their concept more than drive the story forward. Often there can be small variations to the all over story (who dates who etc.) but basically there really is no progress.
I'm getting bored with those kind of shows, because they lead med to believe i can expect exiting stuff but then just slow down and give you nothing.
Smallville is a great example.
Around season finales and season premieres a lot of stuff happens, they progress the story and Clark often gets a new superpower or something.
But then the rest of the season is left to this:
-each episode is some new villain with a new power from kryptonite, he almost wins but then Superboy[hehe] stops him in the end of the episode
-some drama about him or Lana, either back together or no more - just to keep som romantic drama going
-back and forwards about Lex Luthor as a friend or not
More shows have the same type of layout, and most recently I've already seen some of it in Threshold and The 4400 among others. A new freak takes center stage instead of progressing the story.
It is ok for shows like numb3rs to have an episode-based storyline, but for shows that pretend to be a dramaseries with a plot to unravel - i need to have the progress being made for each episode. There are too many talented writers out there to make bad shows nowadays.
Prison Break is brilliant so far. Just brilliant.
Ok, enough for now...
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don't shoot me if i don't post too much ok ?
this must is what i'd like to call a test :]
aiight goodie...
fred
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This used to be such a great show, now I feel they should try to wrap it up this season - that would give a lot of great episodes :]
It even seems they're going to retouch another subject over the next episodes - with Charlie and his addiction.. This was allready covered in the first season.
They should realize they had a good concept in the beginning and that the premisse originally called for finishing off the series within timelimits. Now i feel i'm watching a standard soap-series in an island setting - with a couple of drops of twists and turns. They leave too many loose ends so you forget why you are excited to watch the show.
In this episode I didn't think about the hatch/theories/conspiracy stuff even once - that's bad... Even though Shannon died there was no progress in the storyline - they just killed off a charachter. This episode and the previous one or two are fillers.
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Sean, Julia and Christian helplessly watch their son fall deeper and deeper into his own hole of selfpity and depression and acting out. They want to do whatever it takes to help him out. However..
No matter how f***ed up Matt's problems are - he finally lets his parents hear it. The reality is he's entirely in his right to be in that state and the one's that did it to him was the three of them. So everything switches over in a split second - you feel for him - and his parents are really bad. And still Sean does the only right thing and punches him in the nose - proper parenting. Time for healing.
The parallell between Matt having three parents and Christian having a realtionship with two girls seems like a strange one to actually put together. But here it totally makes sense and you get it.
The fabulous surgery performed in this episodes is a classic Nip/Tuck one - how do they come up with these things? A frat prank gone horribly wrong with two kids getting their cheeks superglued to anotherone's bare arse.
When they are stitching up the frat-boy's behind and the music starts playing - you first feel it's a typical off-beat song to what you're actually seeing. Which is a normal thing for Nip/Tuck. Then suddenly you hear the text. "...stuck on you..." Classic stuff... they don't make a point of it but it's there - love it.
Another classic moment is when Matt finds his parents (no, surprisingly only Sean and Julia..) in bed together in HIS bedroom. You gotta feel for the kid - poor dude...
This show is a rare entity nowadays - having watched it from the beginning I still haven't had a dull moment.
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