time travel (of course)....when you have to change the past to "fix" the present/future--all over the place lately: Lost, Heroes, Star Trek blah blah blah etc......and the drug that makes you dead for a while and then you wake up again to improbably foil your adversary/escape the impossible situation. the latter is my new fave.
when the writing isn't strong enough to actually produce a coherent narrative, you can always turn to time travel or the drug that makes you dead for a while...
Film Motif II: the plot device that never fails
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Film Motif II: the plot device that never fails
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Re: Film Motif II: the plot device that never fails
The time travel thing is what really soured me on Heroes. The fact that Hiro could time travel anywhere to any time period (and the show's over-reliance on this plot device) made pretty much anything that happened subject to change. At least on Lost, the characters didn't really have any control over where/when they ended up, which makes it a little more palatable.
Either way, the time travel thing isn't nearly as bad as chalking up an entire season of Dallas to the "it was all just a dream" plot device.
Either way, the time travel thing isn't nearly as bad as chalking up an entire season of Dallas to the "it was all just a dream" plot device.
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Re: Film Motif II: the plot device that never fails
the drug that makes you dead made an appearance in an epi of Dollhouse i saw over the weekend and an epi of True Blood. in season 1 of Dollhouse, there was also an escape through the kitchen (to where the secret corporate super-safe was hidden) and an additional fight in a different restaurant kitchen for a kind of film motif double-play.
i'm also noticing the widespread use of people sipping out of coffee mugs and cups that have no liquid in them. you can tell by the haphazard way they are handled.
i'm also noticing the widespread use of people sipping out of coffee mugs and cups that have no liquid in them. you can tell by the haphazard way they are handled.
""On a lonely planet spinning its way toward damnation amid the fear and despair of a broken human race, who is left to fight for all that is good and pure and gets you smashed for under a fiver? Yes, it's the surprising adventures of me, Sir Digby Chicken-Caesar!"
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