Sentences with phrase «big story arc»

Editors and beta readers who read a novel at a few sittings are usually the only ones who can spot the big story arc and structure problems.

So all the books together, collectively, also have one big story arc.

In Panther's Rage, McGregor's first big story arc, the king returned home from kicking ass with the Avengers to find the legitimacy of his claim to the throne challenged.

Not exact matches

«If you look at the old model of advertising, it has an ascending story arc with a big reveal at the end, whereas in today's world, with everyone on their phones, you need to deliver the headline first to get their attention,» she says.

Character design (especially that of the generic - looking Mary, with her big eyes and standard anime proportions), locations and even the overall story arc do little to assert a new identity or fresh creative possibilities for the upstart outfit.

Seeing the big final trap was the one thing keeping me slogging through yet another so - so set of criss - crossing story arcs starring yet another cast of tepid characters getting offed via yet another

The story arc takes us from Bloom nervously ducking under his first crime - scene tape to happening upon The Big Story, which, like earlier roadside accidents, is calculatingly milked for maximum pastory arc takes us from Bloom nervously ducking under his first crime - scene tape to happening upon The Big Story, which, like earlier roadside accidents, is calculatingly milked for maximum paStory, which, like earlier roadside accidents, is calculatingly milked for maximum payoff.

Unlike the Naruto: Ultimate Ninja Storm series which is more and more a mess of technical, balance and gameplay issues these days, Brave Soldiers delivers what is a nice, franchise - based fighting game, at first, i was expecting a simple fighting game with some button mashing, however, the game proved me wrong and i fell in love, the combo system, while easy, is a lot more deep than the one in the Naruto games, with all of the characters having two special attacks, two «burst attacks», a knock - away and a launcher respectively, a throw and an ultimate attack (called a «Big Bang Attack»), every character also has an universal dodge - action that sends them behind their enemies while spending one cosmo bar, making bar management that much precious and shielding you from a half - a-hour combo, unlike in the NUNS series, the fighting and the characters are nicely balanced, with every character being fun to play and viable at the same time, the game runs smoothly without frame - rate issues and the cell - shaded graphics, character models, arenas and effects alike are nice to the eye, battles are divided into rounds, with all the tiny nice stuff like character introductions and outros being intact (fun fact: the characters will even comment on their score after the battle), the game also features an awakening system, called the «Seventh Sense» awakening, unlike the NUNS awakening system which became severely unbalanced in the later game, every character simply gains a damage / defense boost, with the conditions being the same for all characters, eliminating situations when one character can use awakening at almost any point in the battle, or one awakening being drastically stronger than the other, the game has a story mode with three story arcs used to unlock characters, a collection mode, tournament modes, a survival mode, a series of special versus modes and online battle modes.

The second, choosing to make Big Daddy's (Nic Cage) hero cop origin story true (rather than the make - believe of a mentally unstable middle - aged man) is more problematic, especially when the truth could have helped with his daughter's less action - packed arc this time around.

Big - ticket characters like franchise mascot Iron Man are represented, but Infinity War often plays more like a Guardians of the Galaxy story because they're more at home with the overt science - fiction themes of the film, and Gamora (Zoe Saldana, I Kill Giants) has had a multi-movie arc directly related to Thanos.

Rockwell — in his best performance to date — has the biggest emotional arc, changing his ways in the course of a story that appeared at its peak the minute it started.

Really, the story that begins in Doctor Strange # 1 is just the beginning — the beginning of one big arc that will really redefine who Doctor Strange is and what his status quo is going forward.»

As the season marches forward viewers are rewarded with compelling story arcs, Shakespearian twists and turns, and scathing critiques of modern life, big business, & corporate culture.

With Dan Slott's Spider - Man drawing to a close, he is set to unleash the biggest Peter Parker and Norman Osborn story of all time with his penultimate issue Amazing Spider - Man # 800, which features the conclusion of the «Go Down Swinging» story arc and the final showdown between Spidey and the Red Goblin.

In this trailer for Immortals (which is a big improvement over the teaser trailer), the story arc is developed further and the grandness of the movie (size and scope) is more evident.

Among his other television credits is the ABC comedy series «Big Shots,» in which he starred with Michael Vartan and Dylan McDermott; memorable recurring arcs on Ryan Murphy's «American Horror Story»; USA Network's drama «In Plain Sight»; «The Big Bang Theory»; «NUMB3RS»; and HBO's «The Larry Sanders Show» as Kenny, the shockingly uncreative creative executive; the Tom Hanks HBO production of «From the Earth to the Moon»; «Tracey Takes On...»; the telefilm «How to Marry a Billionaire»; «Extant»; «Children's Hospital»; «Psych»; «Bones»; «House»; «CSI»; «Law & Order: SVU»; Medium»; «Grey's Anatomy»; «Terminator: The Sarag Connor Chronicles»; and the ABC Family Channel original «See Jane Date.»

If you're brilliant at outlining a book in a clear and logical way, or if you're a master at crafting the perfect plot or story arc, you won't necessarily need a big - picture edit.

This means a beta can offer better feedback on big - picture aspects: story arc, character development, pacing, etc..

Recommendations and queries regarding big picture issues such as plot, world building, characters, and story arc.

The library is pretty big and leans heavily on back issues, so I can read a whole story arc at a time, but I don't think it has as broad a selection of new releases as the comiXology app.

It's the start of a new story arc now, which is a big relief after the previous few books which I found pretty dull and silly after the huge Aizen fight.

I think Bioware tried too hard to tie everything into the big Mages vs Templar arc and it hurt the overall story because of it.

I didn't find many of the side - stories to be as emotionally heavy as the story arcs in the Persona titles, which was a pretty big let down.

«We want to tell lots of little character - centric stories so Spellbound won't have one big linear story arc,» comments Brice.

For me this is a big problem because I have to re-experience the same character arc I've already seen, and in FFXIV there's no way to vary the story experience.

Seasons are big, free updates that will introduce longer story arcs in which players can shape the persistent world of the Caligari sector with their actions.