I actually find myself a bit baffled by anyone who can identify specific context for all but the most iconic clips in a show regardless of how familiar they are with it, 'cause I totally can't do it. Sometimes I worry because I'll deliberately use my own context blindness to cut faster and use musical/facial/object etc. cues to draw connections and create context even when the actual clip I'm using isn't a fit in show context. I am forever terrified of someone who can recognize things that quickly going 'now wait just a second, in that scene the Doctor was clearly talking about cheese, not contemplating the meaning of the universe, WHAT GIVES?'

Ahem, yes, anyway. I do pay more attention to context when a clip is held because there's that much more chance the viewer is gonna go 'heeeey...I think? Isn't that where he is looking at...cheese?'

if you do hold a clip make sure you give folks enough direction of what to think about so they aren't making grocery lists while waiting for the next clip.

*nodnodnodnod* I think this is a key factor in whether or not a long clip is deliberately creating something or just...boring. Like, make sure there is something *happening* in it, set it up and knock it down, don't just leave it hanging there?