Throughout there is a subtle recurrence and interplay of character; threads of connection, sometimes slight, sometimes strong; links of family or neighborhood or professional association or sexual involvement.
Those who know Presti, the drummer, college basketball player, Rhodes Scholar nominee and executive, invariably credit his hard work and his belief in talent and character, threads that are manifested throughout his youthful roster.
One of the character threads in there, that of the spoiled teenage diva, desperately needs to be excised; it is so very, very tired that it has begun to drag down any script it finds its way into.
But that finale … well, there were three main character threads to it: Joan, Peggy and Don.
The story of A Dance with Dragons catches up and goes beyond A Feast for Crows around two-thirds into the book, but nevertheless covers less story than Martin had intended, omitting at least one planned large battle sequence and leaving several character threads ending in cliff-hangers.
Lacking the narrative clarity of its predecessor, this patchy sequel juggles too many character-threads to be anything more than episodic.
The objects here did not belong to the people that the inscriptions said they did; the house did not have the history that was claimed for it; even the audio tour, asserting that the curator worked with an imaginary character, was threaded with fiction.
But even living with the ever-present danger of ending up like the characters off Threads, it at least felt as if people were worrying about the right things.
They're all intriguing, character-building threads, sandwiched between the witty banter for which Litchfield's residents are known.
SEASON 1 We're introduced to the theme and the character that will thread through the series: drugs, and the smart, disillusioned, drunk Baltimore homicide detective Jimmy McNulty (Dominic West).
