Word: subplot
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Dates: during 2000-2000
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Defensively, Harvard played perhaps its best game of the season. An interesting subplot to this season has been the improvement of the defense from week to week as it tried to match the ability of the offense...
...interesting conundrum, the impracticality of having a character go mad. Bennett went through several drafts of Madness before he developed a subplot compelling enough to take the place of the king's personal tragedy in the second act of his play. A descent into insanity and a recovery from it are both dramatically tenable situations, but the state of madness itself leaves little room for engaging action. Hence the emphasis on affairs of state and the line of succession which fills the later parts of Bennett's playelements which were absent in his early drafts...
...bother carping about script lapses involving the crew (or an even sillier subplot of an upper-class twit on a yacht)? Humans are irrelevant to an effects extravaganza. The money shots come out of a computer or a studio tank. And though a storm is not a shark, the technical artistry plugs into a viewer's neurons to create a churning queasiness. You won't be moved. You will...
...liners. The Mary we see here shows glimpses of her self-effacing but strong self, yet at other times, incongruously, seems to have become a helpless uptown lady-who-lunches and slips into self-help-speak like "I'd had it with having it all." And the career subplot turns into a journalism lesson that makes Lou Grant look subtle...