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Re:Facebook Timeline is too awful to be an accident by eridius on Wednesday January 18, 2012 @08:10PM (#3482726)
What do you mean? Burn Notice typically has two plots running at once (the plot that advances the overall story arc, and then the per-episode plot where they help someone), and they like to switch back and forth between the plots frequently, but they never show them at the same time.
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Re:Facebook Timeline is too awful to be an accident by JoshTriplett on Wednesday January 18, 2012 @09:56PM (#3483017)
Lately they've used split-screen to show simultaneous actions by different people. It works rather well, because while the videos show different actions, they both fit into the same coordinated plan.
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Re:Facebook Timeline is too awful to be an accident by jagira on Thursday January 19, 2012 @04:35AM (#3483796)
Also, 24 used split screens (4 sections) quite frequently.
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Re:Facebook Timeline is too awful to be an accident by someone_welsh on Thursday January 19, 2012 @09:17AM (#3484525)
For a few seconds at a time, during transitions between scenes or in the lead up to advert breaks. Synchronicity of relevant actions is minimum - ie a car driving, while someone sits in a room. the other two may be 2 sides of the same phone call.

There's not really ever 2 concurrent plots happening simultaneously.

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