"Your ending should bring the emotion and meaning in the story to its highest point of tension, then resolve in a clear way that is both emotionally impactful and meaningful to your audience."
"The tension was so good... you know something's gonna happen."
"There is always something at stake in a Tarantino scene, whether it be something as simple as a character losing an argument about a foot rub to being discovered as a spy or just being shot."
"Good crime movies are the intimate, intense conversations that people can have around the threat of violence."
"Just then the death wolf came from behind and thrusted itself at the Rock she was hiding behind which was basically it saying I'm no dumbass."
"His existence compels the reader to ask: What will happen if Emma loses the people she loves?"
"In order to maintain tension, the rules of the universe have to be consistent."
"With each scene, you want to think about whether or not the scene is escalating the tension or not."
"The feeling being conveyed to the audience is convergence, a magnitude 11 shitstorm heading right towards Denji's head."
"Cobb's journey is steeped in guilt and desperation, a man driven to the edge walking a tightrope between redemption and damnation."
"Ike knows that Gerald is the troll, but they can't tell their mom."
"Wow, okay, yeah, and on top of that, there is an actual rampaging monster that might be let loose."
"Makani got damn lucky that Alex showed up when she did."
"Your children don't have the watch, the boy and girl have it."
"Your characters should really be in hell and under siege pretty much all the time."
"Never attempt to awaken a slumbering god, Mr. Jones."
"The movie consistently opts to make the threats more present and the danger more immediate."
"I can't let you leave with him, then I guess you're gonna need to kill another trencher."
"They crawl into the depths of the tunnel waiting for the creature to make himself known. But when it does, you wish it hadn't."
"The consequences for Jon will not be avoided at the last second, which seems to be a very George thing to do."
"Her bloodied fingers beckoning him to come back."
"This was a challenge Luffy had never faced before, a battle of wills from start to finish."
"In the name of Corellon, drop that woman, peasant. If she—woman, stop talking like that!"
"Sora tries to smile despite fearing for his friends. This pain is present throughout the series."
"Fill your story with conflict and tension... inject that conflict."
"The whole game seems to have a tension between the Samus the previous games have shown us and this really submissive dependent version of Samus other M is trying to sell us."
"It just feels kind of uncomfortable seeing these characters be so happy-go-lucky when the fate of multiple worlds hangs in the balance."
"Tanjiro's choice: save Nezuko from the sun or save the humans from the demon."
"Kathleen's presence adds an additional threat too, and it's great to finally get a confrontation between her and Henry—improved in no small part by both of the actors here."
"That's a good frustration that you want the reader to have."
"Catch your characters at their worst and darkest moment."
"Neither can kill the other, but also must always be hunting the other."
"I aimed for the dark green cloud flowing inside and let loose. More voices screaming over one another, 'Turn that off! Are you okay? Oh, thank Jesus!'"
"I ain't killing Tony, but I may be about to kill you two [ __ ] though."
"I think we're the only ones aware of the danger Lilith poses to this world."
"He closes his eyes to accept his fate, but Ein fires away from him, causing his way to completely awaken."
"The anger on Ichigo's face is palpable as the stage is set for him to finally confront the one responsible for all of this destruction."
"Smooth sailing AUs are boring. If you take away the tension, you need to put something else in so there is plot not just people wandering around on a boat in the open ocean fishing all day and talking about the nice weather."
"Make the journey to that finish line inherently hard enough."
"The blonde was a killer. From then on, the net around the goal would tighten."
"The fate of Kolasha hangs by a thread, but one thing that remains undefeated is the courage of the brave men and women of the mobile infantry."
"Saving her means taking on the entire world."
"All Moriarty had to do was let the explosion do its job just like he planned, leaving no loose ends and leaving Holmes completely in the dark."
"I loved when he begged that sniper with Stormtrooper aim not to make him kill him."
"If Rex Lapis has indeed been murdered, then Liyue is in great peril."
"Peppa has to figure [it] out. Peppa's gonna kill someone. But who's it gonna be, Chad? Who is Peppa gonna kill next?"
"I felt like there was unfinished business here."
"To have a ship of this scale make it so deep into the core worries me greatly."
"Harry saw Draco's face up close now. Draco's expression was full of reluctance, even fear."
"No matter how absurd this story gets remember it's true."
"It's okay I understand I wish I could but you're right of course what I did was unforgivable go on go after your mother and claim your birthright that's champion ha ha ha ha ha ha this is no longer funny guys."
"Secure in the knowledge that you made it possible for me to destroy everything that you fought to protect."
"She's infected. I was bitten an hour ago and it's already worse. This is [ __ ] real, Joel."
"Nothing but a god can stand in your way: the ominous foreshadowing."
"It's been too long without any unnecessary violence."
"Aria's future is death and blood and that should be addicting for her."
"The Marvel heroes know what they have to do, but do they have to do it?"
"One plunge your main character into terrible trouble as soon as possible."
"God forgive me," he said, before pulling the trigger.
"The flood is an enemy that jeopardizes the entire universe."
"If they don't find a way to work together somehow and come up with a way to defeat Lord fck in battle then I fear that what Lord F will do is tear them down and rip them apart one by one until there is nothing left."
"It's not too Atlantis to say that he might have the most pension of anyone."
"Takashi displays a supreme ability to conjure something sinister which is an all-day difficult thing to pull off properly."
"A night of innocent games turns into a chilling confrontation."
"He sounds like the stakes are high. They have never been higher. Now I believe it."
"Alas, that meant Diana put it down before I could study it more closely. Ah, that was mercy, that was, as close as that worthless creature would ever get to tasting godhood, and she ripped it away."
"It really feels like our hero is in peril here, even so he stares down death bravely."
"One fatal round through the forehead is dead. That's no accident, this was deliberate."
"The tension followed by the action is tantalizing."
"It's not going to work out, and that kind of fuels the tension behind the story."
"This was the first chapter where I felt that there was genuine dramatic tension."
"Perhaps the best way the game capitalizes on its setup is with the scene where Strangelove demands to know the truth, but Snake sticks to his story even when he's tortured."
"He guarantees to slip out before she dies, even if it ends him, even if she becomes a hunchbacked old bag."
"They've given her something she needed but then taken away something which is really going to handicap the hero."
"Ending on a cliffhanger... leaving players wanting more."
"That's how Victor Jonai won the lottery over and over while simultaneously ruining his life."
"The culmination of all of this tension leads up to the moment in the volcano where your heart just shatters."
"The security captain volunteered to complete the transaction, however, the man in Black acted without honor."
"Suddenly, the top of the French door swung inward, and in the few milliseconds before the nails in the bottom caused them to snap back, Kim could see his silhouette."
"Kill all eight visionaries before midnight sounds like some kind of effed up fairy tale."
"All it takes is someone mentioning the name von Karma, and Phoenix gets all worked up."
"Big big potential death flags happening here."
"If you're gonna threaten a character with death, I'd kind of want to have a character threatened with death."
"You shouldn't have made Wednesday Adams angry."
"Now there's a real actual antagonist to fight and struggle against."
"If he's not stopped, it will bring destruction and chaos to Spira."
"Who is going to sacrifice themselves for Tsurugi's life?"
"A narrative plot no less than a conspiracy of armed men. The tighter the plot of a story, the more likely it will come to death."
"It opens up with the word failure and it says timeline five minutes too late 30 seconds from the end of the world which shows you right away that the stakes in this book are incredibly high."
"The trick to any good thriller is having a ticking time bomb."
"Nightwing has twice failed to stop the Judge and if he falters a third time, Dick Grayson may never recover."
"It was ten years ago on a foggy night. 'If I let them kill you, Clint would never forgive me,' Sogi's voice just a whisper in my ear."
"I really liked that tension and I really liked the 'we don't know what's gonna happen next' kind of thing."
"These are two unstoppable forces that need to meet."
"This introduction is perfect, aggressive and despite still remaining extremely ominous."
"A good romance needs tension or else you know it's Bob and Sue who did everything right and that's why no one will remember your name."
"Every character at some point or another is a rival that must be conquered by Isagi."
"I have here a list of my runaway debtors. Collect their souls for me and I might pardon you two mugs."
"She then finally has a reunion with her dad after first killing two of his men in front of him."
"That's the devil himself speaking... oh that's good enough."
"Gems being shattered was what made the threat of the diamonds feel so huge and real."
"Butcher has a choice: to join the fight or save Ryan."
"It cuts to the cops who hear the gunshot from the snake murder."
"Norman reluctantly agrees and gives his former friends five days to find them."
"Arcane's action scenes introduce and develop characters while adding narrative tension, keeping the audience engaged."
"With an effort of will I forced my mind away from these thoughts since there in the ruddy glow of the dying fire I found myself becoming mortally afraid"
"The Struggle of what the characters were gonna do to them while maintaining their Humanity was one of the best aspects."
"Creating good tension especially as Alice and our secret villain remember everything and have a confrontation."
"the hardest hitting moments in East blue are not the final boss fights but the events leading up to them"
"Damn you, Doctor, about you, damn you."
"No one you wanna mess with," Tom answered. "Now where are you keeping Sam Riley?"
"I will only ask once, data keeper, what was the secret in your crimson level that will make me spare your life?"
"Helpless, afraid, angry. I felt the same way the second that Valerie had appeared with those demonic wings."
"Ripley is Ash's biggest threat because she is very involved and doesn't ignore details."
"This film makes you really like the characters, you don't want them to die but you know something bad is going to happen."
"Tension is essential, whether it's one person or two battling."
"The tension finally pays off to something really great."
"In terms of stakes being high and characters being in danger, there are few shows in recent memory who have made me feel like yes, that character you care about could die at any moment more effectively than this one has here."
"I like the tension that you get from knowing or visualizing what's going to happen."
"She gave her husband an ultimatum on a warm afternoon in August: withdraw, stand against the paranoiacs and the maniac before it was too late."
"Suspense doesn't come from having a bomb thrown from nowhere at the hero; suspense comes from having two people sitting talking at a table, there's a bomb ticking underneath the table, and you don't know when it's going to go off."
"This is now without question going to be a make-or-break moment for our heroes."
"With her last breath, Scarlet Witch pleads for Ash to find the Necronomicon and put an end to this hellish plague."
"This is madness. You will regret this," Mama Dike warned. "The boy is not what is causing our problems."
"A relationship between a hero and a villain is always going to be a little bit tumultuous."
"The peaceful harmony of Traken is about to be shattered forever."
"The tension is so thick it can be cut with a knife."
"The tension grows, but eventually, Shady is allowed to leave."
"Tension is how you are building the rising action of your scenes and your chapters."
"Couriers from the red Guild were seldom the bearers of good news."
"Sometimes it's not strictly just about bloated word count; sometimes it's about tension or pacing problems."
"This was a horrifying chapter, the build-up of destruction, the beginning of the end for hero society."
"Now the god has died, all the paladins that are left live in fear because that berserker mode can return."
"The show was building to this tension between Ahsoka, Anakin, and a Jedi."
"The greatest threat to peace may come from within their own ranks."
"We have to prepare ourselves for potential deaths, including the deaths of characters we've grown to care about."