https://twitter.com/pkafka/status/1392111119511216132

Amazon studios executives had to send Bezos regular updates on the projects in development that included spreadsheets describing how each show had each story element; and if one element was missing, they had to explain why.

storytelling is when you're ticking boxes in a checklist, and the more boxes you tick, the more storytelling you're doing

    • CyberSyndicalist [none/use name]
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      3 years ago

      This is not really the point though. If I said that novels should have characters and story I would be correct from a marketing standpoint but I would also be missing the forest for the trees.

      • Quimby [any, any]
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        3 years ago

        Also, you would be telling professional screen writers nothing they don't already know. Anyone who has taken middle school English can tell you that epic stories traditionally have a character who grows over the course of the story. Let alone a professional writer with 3 degrees from Middlebury or whatever.

        Bezos thinks everyone else is an idiot, which is unbelievably galling, when he is the one being an idiot. As someone else said "oh? humor is good? gee, thanks. I didn't realize people liked humor. Anyway, ok, humor is good. So write an original joke. Should be easy, right?"

    • RowPin [they/them]
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      3 years ago

      That's because bad anime literally hires writers from webnovel sites, I was fucking floored when I saw that, given my last interaction with the webnovel community was someone asking for a critique of their "skeleton mage harem novel" and a second person said they would do it so long as they got a critique of their Nazi lolicon story (which they had commissioned art for). Anime studios hire the Japanese versions of those dudes.

      I felt like I was Bill Hicks in the Waffle House where he reads a book and the waitress says "why read when ya got the telly right here?" while the old redneck in front of him says "well well well, looks like we got ourselves a READIN' boy". Anyway fight against that shit by reading Urasaria Academy, it rocks.