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I’m think sitcoms are more horizontal. So situations. Revealing that with streaming more situational things have long arcs across seasons.
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The analogy puzzle is not quite well posed. It’s more like: Vertical integration : (story > X) :: horizontal integration : (X > story) X = situation is a reasonable solve
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Worldbuilding - also maybe hyperdiegesis: “the creation of a vast and detailed narrative space, only a fraction of which is ever directly seen or encountered within the text, but which nonetheless appears to operate according to principles of internal logic and extension”
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