"The show puts a more complex dramatic bomb on the screen werner's freakout is a problem that will eventually explode and until it does we're tensely waiting for it to happen."
"It knows just when to pull back so as to not undercut any dramatic moments"
"The snap should be something with build-up, something the characters struggle for."
"I know what you're thinking. Did you fire six shots or only five?"
"By adding new backgrounds and motivations to the characters, the show was able to set the stage for interpersonal conflict loaded with higher emotional stakes."
"Dennis is the kind of character who is seemingly always on the cusp of murdering someone and now he may have actually done just that."
"A bullet kills people you have to have that rule on a show because otherwise there's no stakes in the scene."
"Either way, it's information that she is not supposed to have, and I am very curious to see how she acts with it."
"The systematic takedown of our heroes ratchets up the drama and despair with remarkable effectiveness."
"Seriously, because she is the most dangerous, and she's not gone. She's coming back, baby, and she's pissed off, I'm telling you."
"Act One: Where challenges emerge, but connections falter."
"The chilling climax: Blood on the ceiling, innocence lost."
"This Black Thorn-Mariko situation is kind of hot too."
"The dramatic question of fixing the villains made it interesting."
"Arya is going to be the one who kills her, and in this shot she looks infuriated."
"It's going to be a somber victory, every time we've imagined someone taking the Iron Throne."
"To drive the darkness away, it seems, the light will have to perish with it!" - Lord Hoth
"It's very clear how much he cares about his wife and his child. What we don't know is what he knows and what those characters know."
"Trapp was getting into a lot of trouble right before Pat died."
"Feels like this is going to be one of the best most dramatic and tense seasons of Drag Race we've had in a while."
"Saving her means taking on the entire world."
"The extra conflict between Otto and Allison adds intrigue to their dynamic."
"They're getting close. They are getting fucking close."
"That was the greatest period of time, and that tension between the two of them made that into a scene that really was so much better than I ever thought it could be."
"The Thousand-Year blood War Arc or should I say soul Society being absolutely terrified of another villain oh my God."
"He meant it when he said I would rather do the right thing and lose than doing the wrong thing and winning."
"Will it get away? I mean if it did I wouldn't show you right? I think does it, there's so many different shots about like 'die already I want to die' behind a tree."
"The tension was off the charts and I loved it."
"It's such a tense scene watching them close in as she struggles to spark up her lighter due to it not triggering and her hands trembling because of the infection."
"Nothing but a god can stand in your way: the ominous foreshadowing."
"I want to first point out that Oda did not intend for Shanks to lose his arm initially. That was something that was added into the story to increase the tension and the drama by the editors."
"The best scene is when Crow takes off his helmet and just stares at Joaquin Phoenix."
"Crow vs. Phoenix is one of the best movie rivals ever."
"Now you have empathy for the family but also like you're kind of like screaming with this guy and you understand him going crazy but like you also feel bad for Mark and it's like you don't."
"You feel so bad and also like that whole situation should not have escalated to where it got to..."
"Tim Platt: 'Commodus: Yeah. Okay, Maximus. Whatever. You're still just a gladiator.' Maximus: 'I can have you killed by one move of my thumb.'"
"More superhero movies should take a leaf out of the Raimi playbook and batter their protagonists. I don't want to see heroes being obscenely powerful, I want to see them fail or die trying."
"It's incredibly tragic and yet it also makes the movie that much more interesting, daring to kill off a lovable character and creating a dramatic choice for the ages."
"Stakes and struggle make a story interesting."
"Negan back home inquires into how Sasha died inside the coffin and Eugene comes up with the convincing liar that she simply ran out of oxygen."
"Monica says, 'You are the one in control of the town,' in which Wanda looks at her and says, 'You're still here.'"
"This is quite exciting, how will everyone overcome despair this time?"
"Every nearfall was like putting your own life on the line."
"It's essentially a fight between two ideologies, two men fighting to the death."
"That opening sequence when you're seeing the battle between the Harkonnens and the Fremen was awesome."
"I believe that we're looking at a curse far more powerful than anything imagined."
"The bandits in this level are coming in pretty clutch because every cutscene Joel is about to ruin his relationship with the only two people on Earth that still like him, then they show up out of nowhere and he bonds over killing them."
"A war is coming, I'm afraid. Your friends at Hawkins are very much in the eye of the storm."
"I think people kind of know that even Melfi, even later on we're gonna see Carmella, they kind of know that Tony had something to do with this or could have prevented this with Jackie Jr."
"Mitsuki confronts Hyori demanding to know who she is."
"the mood is straight out of a Shakespearean history play – nearing the climax when the plotting villains fear the tides of consequences coming for them and just might be cracking under the pressure."
"Helsing walks this line over and over between just rolling around in its violence like a dog and [__] but while also reminding you how scary and brutal that violence can be."
"The time travel plot is smartly assembled to maximize the tension and drama without feeling too contrived."
"Furious, Julie gives Jocelyn forty-eight hours to talk to Florence."
"There's only so much setup you can do for a relationship."
"People are gonna fall in love with these characters and become afraid for them, and they should be afraid for them. Nobody's safe when you play the game of Thrones."
"Better Call Saul supplies this in every season and essentially gets to a point in seasons 5 and 6 where it even matches the quality of Breaking Bad."
"You've given them everything. Not everything. Not yet."
"Moon: Threatens to devour everything and everyone in a cataclysm of fire."
"Write a scene where the bad guy goes through a multi-layered mini arc stuffed with heart-pounding reveals and reversals."
"Punk knows who MJF is but he lets his guard down in one attempt to make MJF see the light."
"The fight that showed us the potential of this show is Rockley's fight with Gara the sand prince and the king of martial arts clash fists in the Chunin exam where the chances of victory are low and the tensions are high."
"The fate of the entire sector, perhaps even the Galaxy, hung in the balance."
"Negan was confident in his position but Maggie was not unprepared she gave him an ultimatum either help her or she would report him to the police."
"Together they ignite a battle between Pagan and Puritan, one that threatens to destroy the entire Village leaving nothing but ashes and bloodshed in its wake."
"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."
"Fate is a funny thing in film and television, and with it so often being decided with moments of despair, death can come at any time."
"It's a great novella, it's sexy, exciting, all intense."
"Countdown to destruction had it all, you felt the pressure on the Rangers."
"That level of commitment to heroism bordering on near desperation injects an immediate tension into the character's actions."
"The very air grows thick with tension as the blue-white arcs of energy twist and writhe like serpents hungry for release."
"I love a false identity. I love when someone is just in the story by pure force because they are not who they say they are."
"Very nicely done, beautiful safety. What a cliffhanger."
"Would the church dare to storm into the kingdom and into her home with the Judgment Army to arrest Andrea?"
"They're gonna try and ride that ramp of escalating stakes as rapidly as possible season to season."
"Such depth of humanity makes a werewolf's ferocious carnage even more gripping."