{"id":121,"date":"2009-11-14T01:28:00","date_gmt":"2009-11-14T01:28:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/14\/IHateFlashbackEpisodes.aspx"},"modified":"2009-11-14T01:28:00","modified_gmt":"2009-11-14T01:28:00","slug":"i-hate-flashback-episodes","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/2009\/11\/14\/i-hate-flashback-episodes\/","title":{"rendered":"I hate flashback episodes"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/content\/binary\/WindowsLiveWriter\/Ihateflashbackepisodes_14074\/Kiefer_2.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" style=\"border-bottom: 0px; border-left: 0px; display: inline; border-top: 0px; border-right: 0px\" title=\"Kiefer\" border=\"0\" alt=\"Kiefer\" src=\"http:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/content\/binary\/WindowsLiveWriter\/Ihateflashbackepisodes_14074\/Kiefer_thumb.jpg\" width=\"244\" height=\"94\" \/><\/a> <\/p>\n<p>Tonight I watched three hours of television, and two hours of it were in reverse.&#160; It seems more and more TV writers are using the flashback episode as crutch.<\/p>\n<p>By flashback episode I mean those episodes where at the start of the show you come in at the end of the action.&#160; So, after ten minutes of &quot;look, here&#8217;s how the show ends!&quot; you have to sit through 30 minutes of review explaining how you ended up where you started.<\/p>\n<p>Here&#8217;s my request to TV writers out there: either learn how to develop tension through foreshadowing and character development or go back to film school.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Tonight I watched three hours of television, and two hours of it were in reverse.&#160; It seems more and more TV writers are using the flashback episode as crutch. By flashback episode I mean those episodes where at the start of the show you come in at the end of the action.&#160; So, after ten [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[20],"tags":[123],"class_list":["post-121","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-idletv","tag-television"],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=121"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/121\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=121"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=121"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.little.org\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=121"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}