Too linear ?

[PB]

That's what Alan Poul said about Ball and the writing process. Ball
doesn't like linear writing, wants disconnected realistic character
behaviour, etcx...

That is the only thing I can think might explain the Season 5
Nate-Brenda arc. To me, it just didn't ring true. Would have been more
traumatic and shocking to have Nate die just when he and Brenda had come
full circle and embraced each other in a loving marriage, as much as
possible.

I understood the Nate attraction to Maggie, with shared tragedy, but
that and Lisa's dalliance with her brother-in-law were the 2 glaring
plot weaknesses. Oh, and Joe disappeared pretty quick too. :)

Other than that, everything seememd about right.

[b***@yahoo.com]

Post by PB
That's what Alan Poul said about Ball and the writing process. Ball
doesn't like linear writing, wants disconnected realistic character
behaviour, etcx...
That is the only thing I can think might explain the Season 5
Nate-Brenda arc. To me, it just didn't ring true. Would have been more
traumatic and shocking to have Nate die just when he and Brenda had come
full circle and embraced each other in a loving marriage, as much as
possible.
I understood the Nate attraction to Maggie, with shared tragedy, but
that and Lisa's dalliance with her brother-in-law were the 2 glaring
plot weaknesses. Oh, and Joe disappeared pretty quick too. :)
Other than that, everything seememd about right.

I don't know having Nate die right after the wedding would have seemed
too linear to me. The martial problems they encountered didn't seem
linear, more meandering. It seemed AB didn't know where to go with that
relationship, so he got them squabbling & arguing. It was a low point
for SFU plotting in my eyes, rather daytime-TV. I would have liked to
seem him, oh, take it where I wouldn't imagine it going.

[manitou]

Post by b***@yahoo.com
I don't know having Nate die right after the wedding would have seemed
too linear to me. The martial problems they encountered didn't seem
linear, more meandering. It seemed AB didn't know where to go with that
relationship, so he got them squabbling & arguing. It was a low point
for SFU plotting in my eyes, rather daytime-TV. I would have liked to
seem him, oh, take it where I wouldn't imagine it going.

Almost anything would have been better than the dreary menage they
created once Nate and Brenda finally got hitched.

It was at this point that I found myself being genuinely glad the show
was ending with S5.












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