And now for an episode of "what he said."

Over at Mighty God-King we have a critique of the new series, The Event.  Now, I haven't seen the show, and from what I've been reading about it, I don't have any desire to, but MGK's post brings up some very good points that are not just applicable to series television, but to fiction generally.  I can boil it down to a general rule of thumb; in  your book/trilogy/film/TV series, no matter how complex the story is going to become in terms of plot and style and world-building, in the hook—...