Not every storyline can be subtle.
Raymund Flandez of The Wall Street Journal said it had "tasteful restraint, subtle playfulness and smoothly woven storylines", and The Atlantic Kevin Fallon said the episode "treats its characters realistically and send an important message".
They were dated close together, but with subtle and significant differences in the storyline.
Canning had hoped that Tracy's storyline would be a "subtle, fairly straightforward plot", in contrast to the wackiness the series had a reputation for, but found it unfunny.
The subtle cartoonish markers work as clues to the storyline, guide the viewer's eye and forcing it to focus in on certain areas of the frame. .
She still hasn't read George RR Martin's books, mainly to avoid getting the storylines confused while she was performing (subtle changes and cuts have been made for the TV adaptation).
Both surveys had subtle double-checks built in, to make sure the companies' storylines tracked.
And what exactly is "sexual content?" According to the PTC, it includes dancing, nudity (partial, obscured or implied) and "scenes in which sexualization was intentionally ambiguous and communicated using subtle overtones and social cues" including scenes that "required knowledge of a previous storyline or history and/or knowledge of the characters' general disposition".
In developing the series, the producers wanted to repeat the serialised style from series six, and settled on using the resurgence of Russia as the primary storyline, as they felt that at the time, the resurgence is in subtle ways threatening the security of the west.
That usually leads to my emphasizing to the reader that a director, screenwriter, character, manager/coach, or ballplayer makes huge (though often seemingly subtle) choices, going in one direction and not in another, at pivotal points in the "storyline".
