and reading and viewing clips out of context made it even more campy than I'm sure it was.
I don't know, that whole evil!Cordelia/Connor thing was Pretty Bad.
You know what's funny is how so many shows try to do some Big Reveal where a Big Secret comes out after it's drawn out for x number of episodes, and it just almost never works, you know? I really think, like, 2 episodes is the limit of how long most shows can really sustain that. Lost might be the exception, but the jury's still out.
Personally, I prefer the "Comes a Horseman" method, where the Big Reveal comes completely out of left field and still makes total sense. The Cordelia article is right about that, too -- the "gotcha!" episode she mentions is so well done. I can just imagine if they'd try to draw that out for 5 episodes or something -- oh, no, wait, I don't have to imagine it, because that's exactly what they did with evil!Cordelia.
ETA: Oh, and I added Nate & Hayes to my Netflix queue. :)
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I don't know, that whole evil!Cordelia/Connor thing was Pretty Bad.
You know what's funny is how so many shows try to do some Big Reveal where a Big Secret comes out after it's drawn out for x number of episodes, and it just almost never works, you know? I really think, like, 2 episodes is the limit of how long most shows can really sustain that. Lost might be the exception, but the jury's still out.
Personally, I prefer the "Comes a Horseman" method, where the Big Reveal comes completely out of left field and still makes total sense. The Cordelia article is right about that, too -- the "gotcha!" episode she mentions is so well done. I can just imagine if they'd try to draw that out for 5 episodes or something -- oh, no, wait, I don't have to imagine it, because that's exactly what they did with evil!Cordelia.
ETA: Oh, and I added Nate & Hayes to my Netflix queue. :)