It begins with two gripping introductions: one is a terrific set piece in a French country home where a farmer and his three beautiful daughters are sheltering Jews who hide under the floorboards when the Nazis show up for another inspection.
Just as it did upon its release in 2009, it feels like a watershed moment, a throat-gripping introduction to a kind of Australia so often out of sight and mind.
There are also studies that aimed at more efficient operation, sophisticated selection of gripping points and introduction of operation methods other than picking and moving.
Tory Ireland Mell of IGN praised the episode for its reasonably short teaser, thinking the shorter it is, the better the episode, as well as its gripping storyline and the introduction of the alien race, particularly the fact that very little is known about them, stating it was "a perfect tease by the writers".
They set out their stall in a 50-page introduction which is utterly gripping, both in terms of methodology and conclusions.
It's wonderful: a murder mystery, an exploration of mob mentality in a small village, a mind-bending introduction to time travel, and gripping to the end.
"Conan Doyle lived a life as gripping as any of his own adventure tales," the editors write in their introduction.
You could find this exhibition gripping purely as a vast piece of installation art, but ultimately all its drama is just an introduction to Kiefer's paintings.
This gripping political history not only provides a detailed scholarly account of the Sino-Japanese war but also, in a prologue, offers an admirably succinct introduction to the political history of China in the first half of the 20th century.
