[Loved Trope] The one random episode that doesn't follow the main characters

[u/BagOfSmallerBags]

Heated Rivalry Episode 3 "Hunter": The show stops following Hollander and Rozanov's love story to follow another hockey player, Scott Hunter, and his romance with a smoothie store employee.

The Last of Us S1E3 "Long Long Time": Joel and Ellie need a car. So to explain why there's a car waiting around for them to use, they show us an incredibly heartbreaking love story lasting 20 years between two men Joel knows. They have a car.

Doctor Who S3E10 "Blink": With no explanation given, this episode begins with a character we've never met, one Sally Sparrow, poking around an abandoned building. Our lead character, The Doctor, is glimpsed seemingly randomly on TVs. What is going on? Did that statue just move!?

MythicQuest S1E5 "A Dark Quiet Death": Rather than continuing to follow our lead characters as they develop an MMORPG, we flash back many years to witness the history of a couple who start a videogame company, and how over the years the pressure to drive sales causes them to give up on their artistic integrity.

[u/SymmetricDickNipples]

The special episodes of mythicquest just prove that they should have made an anthology instead. They are orders of magnitude better than the actual show 😅😂

[u/BagOfSmallerBags → u/SymmetricDickNipples]

...hard argee tbh

[u/PancakeMixEnema → u/SymmetricDickNipples]

OP chose some killer examples. I love Mythic Quest and its specials

[u/drakeallthethings → u/SymmetricDickNipples]

It’s my opinion the William Hurt episode is better than the one referenced by the OP. It was amazing and especially touching since William Hurt was battling cancer irl at the time.

[u/SteveMightSay → u/SymmetricDickNipples]

They did a spin off like that and done by the same writers of DQD but it wasnt anywhere near as good as it

[u/dotcha → u/SymmetricDickNipples]

Can I watch them without watching the rest of the show? Didn't like the pilot even though I love mmorpgs. If so, which ones are they?

[u/sixsamurai → u/dotcha]

Yes, though some of them are tangentially related to the main characters and have more emotional impact if you understand them

[u/Narradisall → u/SymmetricDickNipples]

Really enjoyed the episode Op quoted. Such a great mini story. Like so many of the others were as you say.

[u/probablymark → u/[deleted]]

Yeah I really can't stand the show but that episode was amazing.