The Glee cast covered the song during a thematic episode of their second season.
Key words, as Alter has explained elsewhere, clue the reader in to what's at stake in a particular story, serving either as "the chief means of thematic exposition" within episodes or as connective tissue between them.
The glyph code was cracked by an editor at the technology site Ars Technica, who discovered it to be a simple substitution cipher used to spell out a single thematic word for each episode; for example, the pilot episode's eight glyphs spell out the word "observer".
Still, the monodrama is structured in nine episodes with thematic titles, like "Pressentiments" ("Forebodings"), "Tombe" ("Tomb") and "Voltaire".
After further reworking by Mr. Sinisterra, who tried simultaneously to find thematic intersections between the episodes while preserving the different styles and voices of the authors, a stage version was given to Mr. Freire, who arrived in Madrid in November.
The whole plot of a song consists of the progressive accumulation of minor motifs and major themes, from simple ideas (such as "the hero sets off on a journey" or "addresses his enemy") through typical scenes (such as assemblies of men or gods) to developed but standardized thematic complexes (such as episodes of recognition or reconciliation).
Researchers and critics found "Tuvix" teeming with technical and philosophical content, including thematic ties to other episodes in the Star Trek canon, real-world logical and metaphysical ramifications, and scientific concessions for the story.
The episode's thematic concern with the role of religion in society was noted as being "the tension Millennium would build its best episodes on".
From that you hopefully have a whole series, knowing where they're going and a thematic shape of each episode.
He compared the episode's thematic mechanism to the same concern of the Star Wars films.
