Vertical integration : stories :: horizontal integration : ?
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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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Hmm yeah. Extended universes are the ultimate situations. But degenerate in a way. Only 1 layer. And only 1 possible story — someone trying to change/destroy it wholesale.
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Fictional universes?
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