Plots that escalated quickly

[Silk_Sk]

Arsenic and Old Lace. Full stop. The first few minutes are rather flat but then, BOOM. Massive plot escalation straight up to the end. I highly recommend this morbid comedy.

 

[Icehearted]

I immediately thought of a movie from 1991 for some reason. Been ages since I saw it, almost nobody's ever heard of it, but I remember thinking things got tense fast (also 90s, so like, rad!). It's called Run, stars Patrick Dempsey. Good luck finding it anywhere.

 

[Dark Knifer]

It may not seem like it, but being dead for two years and then living in a prison paradise for another good part of a year, it was a bit jarring to finally see those damn Reapers show their faces.

I thought it would have been a bit more jarring to be the main character then die before the in game title screen. Or to go to a planet and suddenly synthetic robots are impailling people with giant teeth thingys, turning them into zombies and a giant spaceship flew by and the colonies about to explode.

I thought you'd be used to it :/

 

[Tiger Sora]

You wana know a game that escalates quickly. Mercenaries 2. You get dropped in, kill some shit, blow some stuff up. Get shot in the ass and seek revenge. Blow more stuff up and attack the Presidential Palace. All fairly quickly.

 

[unindexedsearchengine]

I'd say mass effect. It goes from shackedown-run to some ponce screwing a human colony all the way to giant robot cuttlefish apocalypse inside of one mission.

 

[Twilight_guy]

Every In medias res story... ever. Wait, I think that's cheating...

I can name lots of shows that star off with a bang, but most follow up with a slower first act after that first shock. Some poorly paced movies go to big to quick and i guess count, but I can't name one right away. Maybe the last Harry Potter movie. Its compensating for a horrifically slow first part and six other movies though.

 

[Shocksplicer]

Homeland. Not so much in Season 1, but definitely with Season 2.
The plot makes giant leaps from episode to episode, way more than you'd expect, so the whole thing is awesomely unpredictable.

 

[Dark Knifer]

It may not seem like it, but being dead for two years and then living in a prison paradise for another good part of a year, it was a bit jarring to finally see those damn Reapers show their faces.

I thought it would have been a bit more jarring to be the main character then die before the in game title screen. Or to go to a planet and suddenly synthetic robots are impailling people with giant teeth thingys, turning them into zombies and a giant spaceship flew by and the colonies about to explode.

I thought you'd be used to it :/

Well I can't really be jarred over the fact of me being killed after dying, and really, I've seen some shit in my day, I thought it would be just the usual pirate raid until Nihilus was killed.

You saw Nihilus die on eden prime? Didn't he die on the ravager above the skies of telos in KOTOR 2?