A voice-over reminds you that the last installment ended with the defeat of a tyrant named Shaddam who ruled a desert empire, and that governing in his stead is proving to be quite a challenge.
Last week's installment ended with a major cliffhanger, as the family's home burned down. .
But we only got two, and the last installment ended on a cliffhanger so unfair that George RR Martin would put down his pen in embarrassment if he saw it.
The episode ends mid-scene, leading viewers to believe that the next episode will be another installment of My Roanoke Nightmare.
With this installment, Then/Now ends, having compared 16 views of the city 30 years ago with identical contemporary views.
Near the close of this installment, which ends 15 years before his death, Fowles refers to the "guilt" of the abandonment, which happened more than 35 years earlier, as a cause of perennial domestic bickering.
Secretly, my wife, Amy, and I had come for the final installment of an old ritual, and final installments always end too soon.
I confess that I haven't read it, but apparently at the end of one installment the protagonist ends up literally hanging from a cliff, only to be rescued by his lover during the next installment.
Such coalescing of instrumental sounds to generate corporate colors is taken further still in the third installment, "Partiels," which ends as extraordinary theater, brilliantly enacted in this performance.
In her exchange with Storyboard, Pamela Colloff, the article's author, admits that she was afraid people were not going to read the (very, very) long piece, and she was surprised, gratified even, that readers wrote angry letters in protest when she ended the first installment with a huge cliffhanger.
South by Southwest, which ended its 23rd installment on Sunday, is celebrated around the world as one of the great institutions of independent music, drawing record labels, bloggers, booking agents, filmmakers, radio programmers and anyone else in search of the next cool thing.
