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Current Talk '03 I / Re:Breakneck Pacing
« on: June 03, 2003, 04:58:38 AM »... He feared that if the show employed anything approaching the slower pacing of the first years of the show (to great effect, I agree, Stuart), the audience would quickly lose interest and tune out. Talk about being completely out of touch with most of your audience.
Not to be the devil's advocate , but isn't that exactly what was (perceived to be) "wrong" with the first year of the show -- remember, DS was nearing cancellation with its first year of slow-moving drama.
I understand your piont, Vlad, and you're quite right that many (though I'm not among them) perceive the pacing to be too slow during the first year. But you'll note I said the first years - which, even if we were to consider that the first two, would take us to a point well beyond that where cancellation was even remotely an issue.
The breakneck pacing, where if one missed even one episode, one might have missed a plot point that might never actually be explained again, didn't really take shape with a vengeance until the last year of DS - a point which will begin soon after the complete shift of focus to 1970PT.