The Long Slow Reveal

We have started watching Season 5 of TDTVS in anticipation of February 2nd. This was a season full of long slow reveals. Seems alike at least once an episode they filmed something in a manner that a character would enter a scene and in an effort to surprise the audience they would be filmed from the back or side or in the dark. If they were a new character they were made to look similar to a regular cast member and vice versa. We just finished Episode 11 and it has almost become comical.