Narrative is a game in which the audience plays to minimize its surprise and the teller plays to surprise (both are rooting for the teller)
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read this as a "year 2019 politics" tweet, was confused, realized it was "reading a novel" tweet, am happy
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so, you triggered a pre-canned rant we all take the phrase "police procedural" as a single unit, but it's two distinct words, and decoupling them is good bc we realize that there is SETTING and TONE. Police is the setting. Procedural is the tone. Now we generalize to X/Y grid
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there are a dozen settings and a dozen tones Procedural works pretty well with the "engineering" setting McGyver is a very low tier of this. Hard SF is a much higher tier.
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