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Wicked Wizard of the West wrote: Eskaver wrote: Balance  (.5 of 1)

- Where as Adam and Eddy balance extremes and Jane and Jerome use muted elements of both, Andrew and Leah seemed to try to establish a muted effect that unfortunately falls flat. Could you explain that? I love how you dig into the writing styles of each writer but it's a little hard to understand "muted elements or both", and "muted effect". And what do you think of David H. Goodman's writing? I consider him the best writer we've got I go by episode as writing is like any thing: it fluctuates.

Adam and Eddy balance their episodes with obvious humor and a little over the top darkness. Jane and Jerome tend to use muted versions, which simply means that they don't hit you over the head with the humor and campy villainy. Example, Adam and Eddy episodes brought the whole "Captain Guyliner" line...which they have used twice so far.

In this episode, Andrew and Leah seemed to be less "Looky here, it's funny!", but I don't think it really came across effectively. Same with angst. Example: The dialogue from the Lost Boys was borderline basic. "Get the pirate. Make him pay. Where did Tiger Lily go?" We've lost her (after two seconds of looking nowhere.) It also has to be paced adequately. It was more like everything was just going through the motions to hit the plot points.

But as I said it depends on the episode. Jane did 6x15 which had more obvious humor which was a bit much.