After seeing another Serenity screening I decided to bust out the Firefly DVDs and listen to the commentary. One of the episodes with extensive director commentary about the editing the plot structure is Out of Gas, which reminded me of this post I started writing 10 months ago and never finished. So here it is.
My favorite stories are those that start near the ending, proceed through the middle while flashing back to the beginning and forward to the end, until the middle catches up to the end. Examples:
- Firefly, Out of Gas
- West Wing - First Season, Celestial Navigation
Can you think of any other movies/episodes that have this structure?
1 comment:
i saw Firefly when it originally aired, you "only DVD watching" poser!
just checked out the website. was amused that in one shot with Wash there is the dinosaurs on the dashboard. heh. "curse your sudden but inevitable betrayal". heh.
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