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« on: June 24, 2015, 07:45:43 AM »
I was thinking between posts about the move to have a set of characters, the original ones, kept in the dark about the stuff their show is actually about. Is it good or bad, unnececessary or inevitable? It might be a better show without that, though it would fundamentally be different, with the Collinses battling the supernatural together and head-on every day. Maybe secrets are crucial to a soap. Maybe there must be lots of individual tensions and intrigues between a large number of people, each with different knowledge and agendas.
Watching the Collinses present a united front, seeing what they're all going to do against the monsters next, simplifies the show to us and them. That may work for a weekly hour show, but not a daily continuing story.