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Nothing forces efficiency more than knowing every minute of screen time is costing 10s to 100s of thousands. No time to dawdle. Can lead to mechanical effects sometimes, but damn the machine works. Slick is the word. It’s not always good storytelling but it’s slick.
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Wonder if there’s a way to measure this. The Expanse, Stranger Things, Cobra Kai have struck ne as especially brutally efficient.
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It’s like tourists on a package bus tour in Europe. “If it’s Tuesday it must be Brussels” type pacing.
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It’s the sign of a mannerist late stage or something. Like we’re on the cusp of a leap out of this local minimum with a young new kind of storytelling that can afford to be sloppy and loose because it makes big gains on an unexpected vector.
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Funny how people think this is either obviously a bad thing or obviously a good thing. 🤣 Can’t just let it be a thing huh
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Examples: Cobra Kai, The Expanse…. Not a single missed beat or sloppy discursive scene. No spezzatura. No weird narrative conceits overindulged.
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