When you think of the way a child starts his/her day, what do you think? Their parents wake them up, they eat cocoa puffs in their pajamas while they watch cartoons, and then get ready for the rest of the day. Over many years, that scenario has stayed the same with most average households that have children. One thing, however, has sadly been changed to fit the new modern world. The TV. A child's day used to begin almost identically to the previous scenario with one difference. Instead of watching cartoons, they would go ask their parents for the comic section of the newspaper. I myself even did this not to long ago, before i was consumed with Power Rangers and Captain Planet.

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What do Gossip Girl and Joss Whedon's Dollhouse have in common?

When we read Bernard Dick's Anatomy of Film Introduction, the section that stood out to me the most was the one on Time-Space relationships: In film, you can do weird things like show two things happening at once, or compress a lot of time visually into a very short amount of time, or slow it down.

So film time (and, by extension, TV time) is flexible. It can also do this weird thing where it folds back onto itself, making the narrative non-chronological to allow you to see several different perspectives of the same space of time.

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