Doing recaps of "Philip K. Dick's Electric Dreams" for @vulture and it's turned out to be this great way of talking about sci-fi functionality. Review of the first episode: "Real Life."http://www.vulture.com/2018/01/electric-dreams-recap-season-1-episode-1-real-life.html …
In short stories you cant to do one acts that lead to a single synthesis point. An episode of 50 minute tv really requires multiple synthesis points that change the nature of the conflict along the way.
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I think of short stories and stand-alone 50-minute films as both "short-form sf," and tho I'm not sure what you mean by "synthesis point"? I'm still not sure you can do in either form what you critique "Autofac" for not doing
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I'd argue that ALL storytelling is "reveal-based" storytelling. And there's only so much character development you can do in 50 minutes.
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