Greatness is found out on a limb
…you cannot suppress the worst tendencies of a show without suppressing its best, because they come from the same place. Put another way: you have to be willing to suck if you ever want to be great. “Awesome” and “awful” are actually closer to each other on the continuum of quality than either is to “meh.”From an article by James Poniewozik about storytelling, television, arrogance, LOST, and Heroes. via robertogreco
The most daring (and polarizing) episodes of the series, “Exposé”, “Across the Sea” and “Ab Aeterno” are great examples of this philosophy. For the record, I loved them all.
1 year ago