Kasper Hviid
Sage
I just tried watching season 6 of Bojack Horseman. The humor is very cringe-dependent, something I simply cannot deal with, so I only watch it at short bursts. Yeah, I'm a sensitive soul. Since I can take several days to watch a single episode, I also end up analyzing it a bit more than if I had just binge-watched. One thing I noticed was that some of the jokes were simply not very good. But, I understood that their purpose was to tie into a major theme. And that bit worked quite well, and, granted, it was very clever.
But I think most viewers will simply fail to pick up this subtle, theme-building stuff. And the price is a scene that, when watched, is rather pointless.
I have seen something similar in a horror series where the story obviously just served to cleverly lead up to the big reveal. Same with some prologues, which cleverly hints to all kinds of stuff later in the story, but in themselves, they just ain't that interesting.
My take is that it is the reader's experience as he read the piece that matters. Whatever the piece is going to mean later is less important, because by then the reader has already moved past it.
What says you?
But I think most viewers will simply fail to pick up this subtle, theme-building stuff. And the price is a scene that, when watched, is rather pointless.
I have seen something similar in a horror series where the story obviously just served to cleverly lead up to the big reveal. Same with some prologues, which cleverly hints to all kinds of stuff later in the story, but in themselves, they just ain't that interesting.
My take is that it is the reader's experience as he read the piece that matters. Whatever the piece is going to mean later is less important, because by then the reader has already moved past it.
What says you?