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I'm fairly sure I remember seeing the "One Year Later" message in the broadcast...[[User:ProtoKun7|ProtoKun7]] 22:07, January 4, 2010 (UTC) | I'm fairly sure I remember seeing the "One Year Later" message in the broadcast...[[User:ProtoKun7|ProtoKun7]] 22:07, January 4, 2010 (UTC) | ||
== Discontinuity or self-referentiality? == | |||
I rather take exception with the fact that this is included in the discontinuity and errors section: | |||
"They [the characters] look away from the angels many times but they [the angels] don't move. Someone or thing is watching them. Some have proposed, semi-jokingly, that they are reacting to the camera and the viewer observing them." | |||
This is an excellent (and very elegant) example of the self-referentiality device (widely used in many television shows, movies and books), by which the audience becomes part of the action. The episode deliberately breaks the "fourth wall" between the action and the audience. As a television criticism junkie, I am endlessly tickled by the beauty of this device and the subtlety with which it's used here. | |||
Come weigh in on the subject on my blog, at http://bit.ly/4W6rxA! | |||
