Narrative Analysis is to look at something as a novel, find out who the characters are, what the plot is, and piece it all together. In class we were discussing Seinfeld, and how it's a narrative about a whole lot of nothing and that there never is a set-in-stone plot.
I think the creators played around with this notion a bit. This is evidenced by the "Backwards Episode." Basically what happens, is they play the final scene first, and then in order, played them all back to the first scene of that particular episode.
If I remember correctly, it began with everyone being miserable because of a failed-wedding. Then the next scene was the wedding, which was a disaster because of something to do with invitations. The following scene was the actual mishap to do with the invitations, and so on and so on until the very last scene was the announcing that someone's getting married. It all pieced together so nicely that the episode was just as good backwards as it would have been forward.
I think this was a neat way for the creators to play around with the characters and the show as a whole. It was the characters that really helped to drive the episode, because as a viewer, you knew what they were all about.
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I think the appeal of Seinfeld was how it was all about the characters. They sucked you in week to week because you didnt know what was going to happen next in their lives. Thats what made it so read. Most shows you have an idea of what is going to happen, who their dating and what not. But on Seinfeld Elaine had a new boyfriend all the time, Jerry was a serial dater. I miss that show becasue television has not been the same since.
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