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Tremontaine Season 3, Episodes 5&6, by Paul Witcover and Tessa Gratton
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Now that I am caught up, I am considering the episodes more as individual episodes. Which is not my best mode of interacting with serials--it's me, not them--and yet it does expose interesting things about the construction of serial narrative as a unique form. No installation is trying to tell a complete story, but each is trying to be satisfying in its own right, thematically, individually.
These two have a paired focus that I think works as the heart of this season of Tremontaine: the holes left by losses from the previous seasons. Consequence and ramification is the hallmark of good series storytelling for me--not just doing the same thing over again but letting it go on to become more and different than it was.
With chocolate, and the organizing of a new school. The new school in particular is something that seems to be finally finding its logistical feet in these episodes. I hope so. The university is my jam, was some of why I loved The Fall of the Kings so much. I pin some hopes on this new school as a plot element.
Now that I am caught up, I am considering the episodes more as individual episodes. Which is not my best mode of interacting with serials--it's me, not them--and yet it does expose interesting things about the construction of serial narrative as a unique form. No installation is trying to tell a complete story, but each is trying to be satisfying in its own right, thematically, individually.
These two have a paired focus that I think works as the heart of this season of Tremontaine: the holes left by losses from the previous seasons. Consequence and ramification is the hallmark of good series storytelling for me--not just doing the same thing over again but letting it go on to become more and different than it was.
With chocolate, and the organizing of a new school. The new school in particular is something that seems to be finally finding its logistical feet in these episodes. I hope so. The university is my jam, was some of why I loved The Fall of the Kings so much. I pin some hopes on this new school as a plot element.