Perhaps it's humor that comes with familiarity of the characters and the situation. Around season two, they stopped trying to do new-viewer-friendly episodes. You see, unlike KFM, the big evil guy and the incompetent minions aren't caricatures... oh they start off that way, but are fleshed out in fully three-dimensional characters over the series.
It really does benefit from following what they do, how they lay out the groundwork and build upon the world, as it really is a world-building storyline. After season one (more like only the first 3/4ths of season one) you can't really just tune into a random episode and see what the big deal is. Know what I mean?
That's where the "extra punch" is. Looking back at that clip and trying to imagine watching it out of context from the series, I realize that one wouldn't know why the Monarch is dressed like that, the details of his escape, exactly why his hideout is sideways, why the hell he went to prison in the first place... it's all these plot and character bits that have built up to get to that point. Not to keep flogging a dead horse, sorry.
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Date: 2008-07-30 10:35 pm (UTC)It really does benefit from following what they do, how they lay out the groundwork and build upon the world, as it really is a world-building storyline. After season one (more like only the first 3/4ths of season one) you can't really just tune into a random episode and see what the big deal is. Know what I mean?
That's where the "extra punch" is. Looking back at that clip and trying to imagine watching it out of context from the series, I realize that one wouldn't know why the Monarch is dressed like that, the details of his escape, exactly why his hideout is sideways, why the hell he went to prison in the first place... it's all these plot and character bits that have built up to get to that point. Not to keep flogging a dead horse, sorry.