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<blockquote data-quote="Michael Torrance" data-source="post: 225496" data-attributes="member: 719">O ye of little faith...Here is what I wrote:&quot;There is a traditional way for plot cohesion: plan it ahead and then have it play out. These are actually my favourite kind of shows. The arch-example of such meticulous planning is BABYLON 5 (or anyway its first four seasons, since the fifth one had to be resurrected after almost buried). Of course DALLAS started this formula in the late 1970s, with PEYTON PLACE even earlier.But season 5 of THE AFFAIR shows there is another way: on your last season, take a look at all the forgotten/unresolved/unexplored pieces of the previous seasons, and mop them up, creating a polished final serving where before you had left some messes. THE AFFAIR has been a bold, innovative show in multiple ways (not without its flaws), but its last season shows that there ways to bring the whole together even when the threads seemed to be have been pulling apart, or even abandoned.&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Michael Torrance, post: 225496, member: 719"] O ye of little faith... Here is what I wrote: "[I]There is a traditional way for plot cohesion: plan it ahead and then have it play out. These are actually my favourite kind of shows. The arch-example of such meticulous planning is BABYLON 5 (or anyway its first four seasons, since the fifth one had to be resurrected after almost buried). Of course DALLAS started this formula in the late 1970s, with PEYTON PLACE even earlier. But season 5 of THE AFFAIR shows there is another way: on your last season, take a look at all the forgotten/unresolved/unexplored pieces of the previous seasons, and mop them up, creating a polished final serving where before you had left some messes. THE AFFAIR has been a bold, innovative show in multiple ways (not without its flaws), but its last season shows that there ways to bring the whole together even when the threads seemed to be have been pulling apart, or even abandoned[/I]." [/QUOTE]

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