#reliance on flashbacks to something that has already been shown is weak imo

[cptnbeefheart]

one thing i really fucking hate about some movies and shows (and what makes me doubt the effectiveness of them) is when they dont have faith in their audience to remember little details/ understand the weight of a detail that has already been revealed. like when a character mentions something that, to a viewer who doesn’t have the background information, can seem vague. so it cuts to a flashback FROM A PREVIOUS EPISODE… SOMETHING THEYVE ALREADY SHOWN… i hate it!!!! like stop wasting my time!!! let me connect the dots myself!!!!!!! its not black and white though, i think flashbacks to something already shown can be artful, surrealist, thoughtful, or even stress the importance of an event on a character and its impact on their worldview. but like . it has to have purpose other than going “hey remember this thing that happened a few episodes/ seasons ago?” like FUCK OFF !!!! perhaps it would serve more of a purpose in a time where the details werent easily accessible via the internet but i just hate it. that’s why i liked westworld so much.. it didnt do that but it was almost closer to the other end of the horseshoe where you’d be confused/ miss something and have to watch previous episodes over again since it was densely packed in some aspects. i think some people didn’t like the show because of that very reason or maybe felt like there were some opulent gilded maguffins but idk i didnt feel that way and actually i enjoy hunting for details to connect dots i think its fun i love feeling like charlie kelly pepe silvia

#anyway its like do you just need to meet a time requirement or something why are you showing me something iver again. #and again i think there are ways it can be effective for example showing it again under a new context somehow #hbo t lou did this episode one and it pissed me off so fucking much Like yeah we get it joel’s paternal. but idk it felt like it stripped #away the audiences ability to interpret onto that. it made that moment 2 dimensional and flat. #it doubted both the audience and the actors ability like …. Thats how i feel #it was the creators of the show saying This is what this story is about okay? condescendingly #also hbo watchmen just did this too ep 5 #reliance on flashbacks to something that has already been shown is weak imo