If that qualified as great storytelling, then every story ever told would look like this...
I'm not a stroyteller, I was just going word-for word on elisi's description of why the Immortal was such a good subject :-)
Clearly people vary on how much they need to spelled out for them or long they're prepared to wait for the payoff on any given character. Dawn's story has been put on a back-burner while they tell a story that's all about Faith and having the ~second episode devoted to someone not Buffy (and not even in the same town) is different from how things used to work on TV but it's working for me. The Faith story is sufficiently powerful that I'm distracted from needing to know what's happened to Dawn and it's also doing a good job of telling me about Buffy by showing me people who aren't her. Like a harmony or a counterpoint or some other musical term I don't fully understand.
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Date: 2007-11-27 10:29 am (UTC)I'm not a stroyteller, I was just going word-for word on elisi's description of why the Immortal was such a good subject :-)
Clearly people vary on how much they need to spelled out for them or long they're prepared to wait for the payoff on any given character. Dawn's story has been put on a back-burner while they tell a story that's all about Faith and having the ~second episode devoted to someone not Buffy (and not even in the same town) is different from how things used to work on TV but it's working for me. The Faith story is sufficiently powerful that I'm distracted from needing to know what's happened to Dawn and it's also doing a good job of telling me about Buffy by showing me people who aren't her. Like a harmony or a counterpoint or some other musical term I don't fully understand.