They hope it builds. Especially when we get a new lead in later on.
Hey! Did you ever light your success candle? Do we need to send you another one? Or ten other ones?
Glory ,'The Killer In Me'
[NAFDA] "There will be an occasional happy, so that it might be crushed under the boot of the writer." From Zorro to Angel (including Wonderfalls and The Inside), this is where Buffistas come to anoint themselves in the bloodbath.
They hope it builds. Especially when we get a new lead in later on.
Hey! Did you ever light your success candle? Do we need to send you another one? Or ten other ones?
Strega, you figured out Sahjahn's plan?
That's pretty nice work. I have to say.
So this guy that took my blood a couple of weeks ago was talking about his two spaniels, and what with the slow bleeding and all... I thought of Tim.
Web'll probably hire the guy.
It'll be interesting to see his reaction to someone that's better at profiling than he and his team are.
I thought I was Paul.
I thought the walrus was Paul.
That's what I meant, Matt.
Strega, it makes act threes kinda like act fours with a re-boot in the middle. In other words, the end of act two for me usually turns the story in a new direction, the end of three is jeopardy. If I drag jeopardy to the end of two, but make it story turning jeopardy, that kind of gives the whole second half a new momentum. Or something.
Figuring out Sahjahn's plan in advance is more than nice work, considering we had no idea what the fuck he was doing.
It made sense in the end though. That's all that matters.
I find the dynamics of the team interesting. They're not a typical "hotshot" squad, and Web's a bastard to whom they don't seem particularily loyal, and they don't seem to have that much stakes in each other. So why are they there? Career prestige? Personal damage? Paul's motivation seems to be a need to keep an eye on Web, but what about Mel and Danny? Where do they fit in?
So basically the intent is to build a narrative in which you appear like you're writing a slow acceleration to end at the 45 minute mark (with commercials), and instead of a denouement, you pick up the flow after it shifts into a lower gear and starts the ramping again?