![]() ![]() Such a short conversation feels almost antithetical to what their relationship has been up to that point. Rhys finally has a talk with his buddy Vaughn about Vaughn and how he feels regarding the hectic situation they’ve gotten themselves into. Having the two of them actually reach out and connect with them. In between the world building of the scavenger hunt for the pieces of the adorable robot Gortys, whose parts we learn we’ve been assembling this whole time, Tales slows down the frantic pace to include quieter moments of Rhys and Fiona commiserating with their fellow companions. There are fewer laughs, but in lieu of them, Telltale has brought another aspect of the game front and center, its heart. Were I to judge “Catch a Ride” solely on it’s laugh per minute ratio, or some other seemingly cringe worthy phrase of measurement, it wouldn’t stack up well to the game that Telltale had been crafting up to this point. By episode 3, Telltale has finally hit their A Fish Called Wanda moment. Each episode of Tales from the Borderlands runs longer than 2 hours. Then with A Fish Called Wanda, again a two hour movie couldn’t maintain the same structure of comedy and the movie had to incorporate elements of a different genre to maintain the audience interest. Each episode of Fawlty Towers would have several gags of recurring story threads interwoven through it, so as one ended the next would become the focus and then the next and so on until returning to the first gag and so on. Fawlty Towers couldn’t maintain the use of the same developing gag like a single scene could in Monty Python. Over a long enough amount of time, a gag will become stale and die. In each instance, while the formal medium essentially stayed the same, the presentation had to change because the length of time needing to be filled was growing. Then when he moved on to making a full feature film with A Fish Called Wanda, he realized that nature of the comedy had to change again. ![]() When he moved on to doing a full half-hour show in Fawlty Towers, he realized there was a difference to how he was doing the few minute shorts of Monty Python. I don’t remember where I heard, saw or read this, but I remember an interview with John Cleese, the estimable comedian behind Monty Python, Fawlty Towers and A Fish Called Wanda, that he had to learn how to do comedy differently for each of those works. ![]()
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