I'd also say that for some people it's "subtle" in that the important moments are happening in quiet scenes. So that's why people say things like "nothing happened" when what they mean is there was no big change of the status quo. So they register things like Elizabeth almost getting caught by the FBI but if she's talking to Paige and Paige refers to Gregory as a "drug dealer" in a way that's judgmental that doesn't register as important. It's just a filler scene that's marking time until a big blow up.
But really that's where most of the drama on the show takes place, in those little moments where people show their positions on things and the other person has to adjust to it or whatever.
It's related to things like the rape because just as you miss the significance if you forget that Elizabeth was raped and that's motivating her in a scene, in a scene like that you need to think about who Gregory was, what he was doing, what choices he made, how Elizabeth wants to present it, how it comes across to Paige, how Paige is presenting it, what that means for Paige's potential recruitment, what the indications are for Paige and Elizabeth coming to an understanding or not...
Elizabeth and Paige both get that in the scene fro their own perspectives. But it's very easy to just read the only important in the scene as being that Paige looked up Gregory's history and is telling Elizabeth about it.
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Date: 2015-10-04 02:30 pm (UTC)But really that's where most of the drama on the show takes place, in those little moments where people show their positions on things and the other person has to adjust to it or whatever.
It's related to things like the rape because just as you miss the significance if you forget that Elizabeth was raped and that's motivating her in a scene, in a scene like that you need to think about who Gregory was, what he was doing, what choices he made, how Elizabeth wants to present it, how it comes across to Paige, how Paige is presenting it, what that means for Paige's potential recruitment, what the indications are for Paige and Elizabeth coming to an understanding or not...
Elizabeth and Paige both get that in the scene fro their own perspectives. But it's very easy to just read the only important in the scene as being that Paige looked up Gregory's history and is telling Elizabeth about it.