*Agent Lafferty throws his badge at Waverly*
WAVERLY:
*catches it, looks at it and pretends to be confused*
“Black Badge.”
AGENT LAFFERTY: “It’s a cross-border taskforce that investigates the paranormal.”
*Waverly throws it at Wynonna who misses the catch*
NICOLE:
*smiles incredulously but secretly knowingly*
“Yeah.”
This is how to do exposition on lore from a TV show that has had 4 seasons preceding it for a 90-minute special of a self-contained story on a new TV art/entertainment network/streaming service platform without treating the veteran audience as dumb or making the characters seem very out of character.
You keep it simple and you show that the characters know exactly what’s going on without having them explain that they do. It’s not only funny for the veteran watchers but also a clever and quick way to get the newbie watchers to the IP clued up on what’s what.
Well done, Emily. I can see exactly what you did here by having this random character explain Black Badge but having the core characters feign their ignorance because, obviously, they know all about Black Badge.
