No, it definitely does. And I think it works for the same reasons as it does in written fiction: if you make the viewer follow you from A to B to C, they feel that more than if you just yell "C! C! The answer is C!" It's more interesting and more engaging.
To try to figure out exactly *how* I am gonna show Driven!Chloe and connect that to Clark and then connect that to her own feelings of loneliness and alienation. Because somehow if she can figure out him or have him - one way or the other, it might make everything better.
Massively uninformed opinion here, but: with Chloe and Clark, isn't the whole show sort of the connective tissue between them? Because she's the keeper of the Wall of Weird, and he's the source of the mystery. I gather that they're less focused on standalone stories these days, but there were certainly plenty of them early on, and there must be a lot of shots of Chloe out investigating. Smallville, post-meteor-shower, is kind of an extension of Clark, and she focuses a lot of her drive on that, on getting to the bottom of individual cases as a way of getting to the bottom of Clark's secret, consciously or not. (Doesn't she have a line about that in Pariah? I wasn't entirely paying attention.) So could you go from Chloe with her clippings to Chloe investigating a couple of different cases to Chloe looking speculatively at Clark? Would that be A to B to C, or would that be some combination of letters that you're not actually trying to produce? ;)
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Date: 2005-03-04 10:26 pm (UTC)No, it definitely does. And I think it works for the same reasons as it does in written fiction: if you make the viewer follow you from A to B to C, they feel that more than if you just yell "C! C! The answer is C!" It's more interesting and more engaging.
To try to figure out exactly *how* I am gonna show Driven!Chloe and connect that to Clark and then connect that to her own feelings of loneliness and alienation. Because somehow if she can figure out him or have him - one way or the other, it might make everything better.
Massively uninformed opinion here, but: with Chloe and Clark, isn't the whole show sort of the connective tissue between them? Because she's the keeper of the Wall of Weird, and he's the source of the mystery. I gather that they're less focused on standalone stories these days, but there were certainly plenty of them early on, and there must be a lot of shots of Chloe out investigating. Smallville, post-meteor-shower, is kind of an extension of Clark, and she focuses a lot of her drive on that, on getting to the bottom of individual cases as a way of getting to the bottom of Clark's secret, consciously or not. (Doesn't she have a line about that in Pariah? I wasn't entirely paying attention.) So could you go from Chloe with her clippings to Chloe investigating a couple of different cases to Chloe looking speculatively at Clark? Would that be A to B to C, or would that be some combination of letters that you're not actually trying to produce? ;)