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Current Talk '08 I / Re: First Impressions of the Remix
« on: May 29, 2008, 10:03:15 PM »the pacing of the DSR seemed like every second there was a new revelation, a new plot twist, something to drive the story further.
And that was basically my point. I brought up Lost to illustrate how a good portion of today's audiences will criticize shows that often move at a slower pace and that don't necessarily deliver plot twists/answers every second (or at least in seemingly every act ). The quicker pace of the '91 series was simply giving today's audiences what they supposedly want. (Or maybe I should say what today's American audiences seem to want because slower paced stories definitely continue to be told on English TV and in other parts of the world. But that's an entirely different issue...)
The interesting thing is that DC firmly believed even back in the day of the original DS that audiences had short attention spans and if the show didn't give the audience thrills and chills in every act, the show would lose them (which is why in the latter half of the show's run (and especially in its final year) it was practically essential to watch every day because plot points were often established and never fully explained again, and if anyone missed that first explanation, they could have easily found themselves confused). I don't honestly believe that (American) audiences' attention spans were that short back then, but it has become truer now - and it becomes even more true with every passing TV season...