I want to open a movie with a dude in a handcuffs with two goons above him- FREEZE FRAME: "This is me. You're probably wondering how I got into this situation?" Cut to two seconds earlier of him being pulled into room. HIM: "Yup, dragged in through that door and shoved down."
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Great point because after a while, BB had created trust with the audience that everything was leading to something interesting even if it seemed slow at the start.
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Thought The Invisible Man was a great example of opening with a hook w/o spoiling the future storyline (though the internet did plenty of that).
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They didn't phase it out as the series went on. The final season starts with a flash forward. And then there's Better Call Saul which is all about the flash forwards (and people who've seen BB know what will inevitably happen to Jimmy)
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Yes, they brought it back exactly twice in the final season, but absolutely phased out over the course of the show, going from every episode, to almost no episodes.
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I like something Gilligan, or another writer, said about those, which is that for the most part those flashforwards are less about showing you what will happen later and more about creating a sense of inevitability.
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Don't think it's any worse a trope than others, just one that needs to be used with care. The latest episode of Inside No. 9, one of the best TV programmes, used it and that episode wouldn't have worked without that framing device.
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They haven't really phased it out. They did a variant of it in
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I think it works in the early episodes of BB because it underscores the distance -- the length to which desperation will drive Walt. But later, that isn't the point, so they don't do it as much. (In most cases, it feels kind of like building the trailer into the work?)
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I loved BB but I actually really didn't like the one in... was it season 2? Which kept opening episodes with the plane crash wreckage because it just felt like pointless foreshadowing when I was more interested in the active story
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Also the resolution as to what the wreckage was and how it happened wasn't especially satisfying. Don't think anything would have been lost without it.
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