And I'm One of the story rhythms that I have really enjoyed in the age of recent TV is the A plot B plot story

rhythm and you see this a lot in 30 minute episodes like sitcoms things like that

that don't have a laugh track, especially, where there's just

enough time in that window to have a primary plot and attention that needs to be relieved.

But then you've got a seemingly unrelated B plot that just gives the

audience a breather to cut away to something that's a comic relief or seemingly

inconsequential or that keeps us checked in with some of our other

favorite secondary characters on a given week so we don't forget about them. I think

this might also just be a function of contracts that actors have with studios

so that they have to appear in a certain number of episodes and so the A plot

B plot thing kind of makes it work. I don't know. I like it though because a really well

written episode that has an a plot B plot structure will eventually weave the

a plot and the b plot together in a satisfying final act where you realize, ah, these two things were related all along and the reason we were tracking these two seemingly unrelated stories is because they

actually totally pay off for each other and the all-seeing narrator was

carefully crafting this so that I would get that payoff at the end and in

doing so see the big picture and the theme of the whole episode. Brilliant!

You know who else is brilliant? Luke, Luke is the guy who wrote the book of acts. You're not going to believe what other book of the Bible. He wrote, I mean you want to, did you want it? It was Luke. He also wrote the one that says Luke. It's right there in the name Doug. And this guy is a master storyteller. Now he wasn't there for any of the stuff that he wrote about in Luke.

The book of Luke is one of the four Gospels that tells the story of Jesus and it looks like Luke didn't come around to the Jesus

singer didn't hear about it until a little later on but the sequel to Luke which

just dovetails perfectly with that book is acts.

Luke was there for pretty good chunks of the book of acts.

He was a buddy of Saul who became Paul.

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