Sep. 26th, 2005

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Had a revelation early today about TV episodes: they generally seem to follow a sort of sonata form. They start with irrelevant fluff to get the episode started before the main story comes along and things start cooking. After a while the main story goes Horribly Wrong and the characters are left in a bad way, but somehow they're always saved by a minor character or event from a much earlier in the plot. There then follows a short, optional coda, where someone moralises or tells a bad joke to wrap the episode up.

I bet if Mozart was alive now, he'd be writing for TV...

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