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<blockquote data-quote="Mel O&amp;#039;Drama" data-source="post: 263377" data-attributes="member: 23">The same&#039;s true for any premise, I suppose. I can accept any kind of reality if it&#039;s well written and played for truth. But as soon as it breaks its own rules of reality, or stretches a concept to the point I don&#039;t feel invested then it&#039;s a problem. The Pyramid episode is an example of this. I imagine Jaime and Christopher&#039;s initial incredulity was intended to match (and diffuse) the audience&#039;s, but I never bought into it the way Jaime did (perhaps because she &quot;lived&quot; it while I had a more objective view). I was also struck with the contrast between the scenes with the alien sentinel and the ones with Oscar and the technicians which had lots of really nice, naturalistic touches in the way Oscar interacted with these colleagues. Usually it would be enough for me to believe, but in this case the contrast seemed to work against it by heightening the artifice of the scenes with Jaime and the alien. Oh, thank you.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Mel O'Drama, post: 263377, member: 23"] The same's true for any premise, I suppose. I can accept any kind of reality if it's well written and played for truth. But as soon as it breaks its own rules of reality, or stretches a concept to the point I don't feel invested then it's a problem. [I]The Pyramid [/I]episode is an example of this. I imagine Jaime and Christopher's initial incredulity was intended to match (and diffuse) the audience's, but I never bought into it the way Jaime did (perhaps because she "lived" it while I had a more objective view). I was also struck with the contrast between the scenes with the alien sentinel and the ones with Oscar and the technicians which had lots of really nice, naturalistic touches in the way Oscar interacted with these colleagues. Usually it would be enough for me to believe, but in this case the contrast seemed to work against it by heightening the artifice of the scenes with Jaime and the alien. Oh, thank you. [/QUOTE]

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