kinda late on this, with episode 4 out now and everyone (rightly) losing their minds over it--but i think i see what happened with episode 3 now. we've all been subconsiously brainwashed by the netflix streaming show formula. if i were watching teen wolf and one of the episodes started in the middle of no where, with a bunch people i don't know about, and no clue what the fuck is happening, that'd be like, just another tuesday y'know? but we've like lost the art of that? the expectation of it happening and the trust in the writers that it's gonna take us somewhere that makes sense eventually? but in the world of streaming shows, released all at once, for people to binge in an 8 hour fugue state, that doesn't work, it breaks the fugue. that kind of episode, that kind of storytelling techinque, has been tossed out by streaming first shows in favour of keeping people glued to their screens and couches and in the flow state. which like, i don't have a huge problem with frankly, if a thing works then like it works. but it's interesting to be reminded of some of the older shows, thinking about this, and about why it didn't work for a lot of people now.
