Btw - If you're curious about the show in general, I have three more episodes left to watch, but it's a pretty ambitious series, even if most episodes are flawed. And like most anthologies, there are a couple true standouts coming up...
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Here's episode 2, in which we talk about about the push-pull of using narrative magic trickshttp://www.vulture.com/2018/01/electric-dreams-recap-season-1-episode-2-autofac.html …
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Replying to @FilmCritHULK
ehhhhh I dk, I feel like this is a critique of features intrinsic to short-form SF
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Replying to @sirosenbaum
Exactly. And the pertinent question is: are these short-form SF or episodes of anthology television? You have to adapt to the form. You simply have to (because the best episodes of this show do just that).
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Replying to @FilmCritHULK
what is the difference between those two things, would you say?
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Replying to @sirosenbaum
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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Replying to @FilmCritHULK
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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Replying to @sirosenbaum @FilmCritHULK
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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A synthesis is point is the point in drama where characters face off in their existing conflict and it changes the nature of that conflict. It is the fundamental backbone of story evolution. In tv, they're critical parts of act break functionality.
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Replying to @FilmCritHULK @sirosenbaum
A good hour of tv should have 4 to 5 of them because that's how you evolve that story. Most sci-fi short stories have one because they really are much shorter, story-wise. They're more situational and cerebral and less dramatizations.
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And yes, every scene you are revealing something, but by "reveal-based" storytelling I'm talking about the kind of episodes that are only building to one point, but rather than telling an evolving story full of synthesis, they just tease and spin their wheels.
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