However, when said themes are thrown out the window, episodes stop being effective. I said at the beginning of my last Penumbra review that the splitting of a story into episodes is effective if each installment has its own feel and conflicts while maintaining the themes of an overarching narrative. This is prevalent in media as well, where a lot of games and movies are organized into trilogies for no rational reason, yet our sense of overarching narratives has come to fit an age-old pattern of: establishing the universe (1), the thick of the conflict (2) and resolution (3). We feel that it is an innately “good” number “on the count of three”, “third time’s the charm”, etc. It dominates cultures worldwide, often revered as a symbol of luck. ![]() ![]() Human beings have an inescapable fascination with the number three. Escape an ancient evil for a chance at freedom.
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