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I hate catch up episodes!

  • 28-11-2009 4:38am
    #1
    ][cEMAN**
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 3,126 ✭✭✭


    Some form of action going on that makes absolutely no sense, or conversations that seem to have come out of nowhere making you, for a moment, think "Did I miss an episode?". Then bam - a cliffhanger moment and you get "14hrs earlier" or "3 days ago" or "1 week ago".

    Why? Why do this? Do you think it makes the realisation any more interesting? NO! If it's a crap script, it'll be crap even if you cut it up and try to go all tarantino on it!

    More gimmicks writers use to try and make bland and boring story lines interesting. Well it annoys the **** out of me! By the time it's coming around to the point where the episode started, I hardly remember or give a **** what way it began. I don't want to see something twice for the sake of 5 extra minutes of explaining it.

    A good plot has twists. It can throw you with one line, or one cut away. But forcing what seems like a twist by showing you the finish of a SLOW buildup, then cutting back to the beginning, is just weak. WEAK!

    Damn you writers! Stop that! Stop it now!


Comments

  • #2
    Basq
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 44,295 ✭✭✭✭Basq


    I'd say 'Alias' was the first of the modern shows to do it. But they typically did it superbly.. and often enough!

    Doesn't bother me to be honest.. there was even one in this week's 'Modern Family'! :D


  • #3
    Mr E
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 55,590 ✭✭✭✭Mr E


    Popped up recently in V, Flashforward and Stargate Universe. The one in V was well done (but obvious), the one in Flashforward was resolved so so badly and didn't add anything, and the SGU one was extremely well done and very cleverly resolved - how it should be done....


  • #4
    L31mr0d
    Registered Users, Registered Users 2 Posts: 8,067 ✭✭✭L31mr0d


    Breaking Bad had an excellent few of those episodes. In fact there was 1 recurring flashforward in a few episodes that only got resolved at the end of the season.

    My favourite was the episode that started with Walter
    walking away from a building that's just exploded and on fire, with a shaved head, chaos all around him, carrying a bag of money covered in blood
    , it then cuts to the present and he's a mild mannered, soft spoken teacher in a classroom. How they resolved this flash forward in the episode was pure genius.


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