After visiting the LTTP Fringe thread, I realized that these kinds of shows are my favorite kind of shows; the ones where you go into it assuming a certain genre and come away in disbelief at what it has morphed into. The world isn't what you thought that it was, and the assumptions you made about what was possible in such a world are no longer valid; it's all a bit of a mindfuck!
I haven't seen many live action shows do this, but it seems to be more common in anime. My favorite examples would have to be from the following shows:
Hunter x Hunter (2011)
This show had a fairly slow start, but by the time you get to learning about Nen, you're wondering where in the hell all of this is coming from! After this revelation, things really start to pick up and your mind can't help but to wonder about what else is possible in a world full of Nen users! Thankfully, the arcs just keep getting more and more inventive to the point where it was simply impossible to guess what direction this show was going in! Probably my all time favorite show, period.
Fringe
This show really blew me away with it's surprise twist of a setting/premise. I went in completely blind, knowing nothing about the show. There were little mysteries being hinted at, but my mind could not comprehend the direction the show was preparing to go in by the end of season 1. It was a complete subversion of expectations, and now I wish more shows would do this!
Wayward Pines
The king of twists creates a twist of a premise to trump them all! No seriously, though the plot turns out to be a bit of a mess, no one will ever say that they saw the recontexualization of the premise/setting coming even moments before it was revealed. This is another show where I went in blind, and suffice to say that there hasn't been a single other show to blow my mind the way this show has.
So yeah, those are some of my favorite examples, but I'd love to see more examples from Era as I'm really looking for another show that will give me a similar experience to the shows I mentioned.
I haven't seen many live action shows do this, but it seems to be more common in anime. My favorite examples would have to be from the following shows:
Hunter x Hunter (2011)
This show had a fairly slow start, but by the time you get to learning about Nen, you're wondering where in the hell all of this is coming from! After this revelation, things really start to pick up and your mind can't help but to wonder about what else is possible in a world full of Nen users! Thankfully, the arcs just keep getting more and more inventive to the point where it was simply impossible to guess what direction this show was going in! Probably my all time favorite show, period.
Fringe
This show really blew me away with it's surprise twist of a setting/premise. I went in completely blind, knowing nothing about the show. There were little mysteries being hinted at, but my mind could not comprehend the direction the show was preparing to go in by the end of season 1. It was a complete subversion of expectations, and now I wish more shows would do this!
Wayward Pines
The king of twists creates a twist of a premise to trump them all! No seriously, though the plot turns out to be a bit of a mess, no one will ever say that they saw the recontexualization of the premise/setting coming even moments before it was revealed. This is another show where I went in blind, and suffice to say that there hasn't been a single other show to blow my mind the way this show has.
So yeah, those are some of my favorite examples, but I'd love to see more examples from Era as I'm really looking for another show that will give me a similar experience to the shows I mentioned.
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