I have to say I'm not a fan of how the show seems to persistently be showing scenes way out of sequence. I have no doubt that people will claim that this is more artistic and what all but to me it just feels lazy cause the show is is pretty much free to reveal plot elements at random in comparison to a typical narrative that has work harder to be in control of its pacing. Granted I'm only on episode 2 of season 2 this is just a very jarring way to tell a story.
When you get to the finale of season 2 you will feel the same. This is exactly why I doubt I will watch season 3. I thought the first season was brilliant. As a fan of the movie I watched the pilot out of curiosity to see what they would do with it. I was hooked and kept watching and I thought the finale was masterful. I never saw it coming. I was really excited for season 2, but the whole extraction team and Dolores going rogue and Teddy and Bernard and what they did to Clementine....AHRRRG!!! I was watching out of habit but I became more disillusioned every week. Tv and movies should be an escape but if you can't follow the story or the sequence of events it's more like a job than entertainment !
shareI didn't like season 2 cause the characters with the exception of maby banard were so unlikeable. I feel the same about watching out of habit. I just kept telling my self there would be a big payout and the end of the season but it never really happened. I really though clementine was dead from the first season and wasnt expecting her.
shareAgreed, Season 2 did a very poor job with story structure. It was a jumbled mess. You shouldn't need a running journal or photographic memory to enjoy a TV series, ughh.
shareI have to say that while I don't object to the out-of-sequence narratives that season 1 and season 2 have both utilized, I'm really hoping they pull back on this device, if not abandon altogether, because another season of doing it continuously throughout all the episodes is going to become extremely tiresome. It's played.
sharenot me. To me showing scenes out of sequence is a lazy way to obfuscate a plot which is really an attempt to make a simple plot line seem more complicated.
shareIt's just a fancy form of a flashback, man, a common cinematic storytelling device that (if used judiciously) can be very effective.
If you don't like the show, just state that. No reason to obfuscate your own point.
Ther's no pretense in my statements. The nonsequential story telling is my only oposition to the show. This goes beyond flashbacks and becomes what I term as either lazy exposition or in the case west world an unreliable narrative that is supposed to make you feel smart you figure out what's actually going on. Flash backs are fine if their not the framing device of the who story.
And your not qualified to know if I like or dislike the show when I'm still a fan of the show so your assertion is out of place. Shows like orange is the new black, sin senos di say paridaso, and just recently I stopped watching money heist after the first episode when I started picking up flash back and voice over fatigue.
My problem with this form of flashback, nonsequential, story-telling is not so much that's it's being used by TV dramas...it's that it's so damn ubiquitous now; it pops up so frequently that's it's become an annoyance rather than a novel narrative device. I trace it back to LOST, who fucked around with it so much jumping backwards, then forwards, and finally sideways that it only succeeded in alienating most of its audience (including me). Since then, it's all over the place: the Walking Dead just did an episode using this device (again! sigh) and it seems like in order for a TV drama to be considered contemporary and "cutting-edge", they have to fashion their narratives with this device employed.
Yes, I'm not qualified to know whether you entirely like or dislike this show--I'm only going by your original post, which expresses dissatisfaction, so that's what I'm basing my read on. Basically, I'm agreeing with you, not so much as to the use of this device, just that it's become a trend now, and like most (if not all) trends, it's become an annoying crutch foisted upon audiences.
I still have high hopes for westworld. And still looking forward to season 3. I'm not putting up with starting new shows if I see falshback/narration abuse. Hence I won't watch money heist or orange is the new black. I coulden't even stomache "lovely bones" cause every scene change seemed to accompany over a minute of narration.
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