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Storytelling has gotten so damn efficient due to screen media. A well-scripted modern TV show moves along incredibly briskly. It’s like Lean Storytelling. Shortest path through the beats of the hero’s journeys. It’s barely even writing. It’s amygdala assembly programming.
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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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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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Gaming allows for storytelling like this. The writer/developer creates the environment and initial conditions for a 'choose your own adventure' narrative. The story is simultaneously written and read as the player navigates the game.
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In dreams there's context switch without realization. Only when describing to someone else does it become clear it's nonsensical. I wonder if a new form of storytelling will take the "Shinings" moving things or "I'm thinking of ending things" continuity mishmashes to an extreme
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If you apply this more broadly, one could argue that big tech backlash/anti-trust talk is signaling the start of a new Baroque era in society. Rise of mystical and religious is part of this.