Really. It's a bit like expecting people who read mysteries to forget who got killed at the beginning of the book, or even that there was a dead body at the beginning of the book. I do suspect that making a TV show is a fairly high-stress business, and that we have a good deal more time to think about the story as a whole than the writers do -- but we're not being paid to keep track of the story as a whole.
I didn't know that the ratings were down, but I'm not much surprised to hear it.
...ultimately we are a storytelling species, with an instinctive BS meter for narrative lapses.
Yes. I mean, we'll tolerate all kinds of narrative tricks if we feel like it (this is why soap operas are still in business even when actors come back as their previously-unknown twins), but not if we think the people telling the story aren't interested in it.
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Date: 2006-12-16 02:42 pm (UTC)I didn't know that the ratings were down, but I'm not much surprised to hear it.
...ultimately we are a storytelling species, with an instinctive BS meter for narrative lapses.
Yes. I mean, we'll tolerate all kinds of narrative tricks if we feel like it (this is why soap operas are still in business even when actors come back as their previously-unknown twins), but not if we think the people telling the story aren't interested in it.