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This is my villain origin story: Salieri vs. Mozart

Villaintine's Month continues with a closer look at Amadeus, and how a villain like Salieri can make an excellent protagonist (without losing the villainy).

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🧐 #280 - We play to a sophisticated audience

If there's one thing the internet has done for the general public's savviness with entertainment, it's bombard them with clickbait-sized helpings of trope education. But if there are two things, that second one is increasing how much we talk about what we watch,

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Villaintine's Month: Miles Morales vs. Kingpin

This month we're looking at pairings of heroes and villains that have more chemistry than some romantic couples. What does it mean to be an archnemesis?

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Novel vs. Screenplay: Choose the Right Route for Your Story

John talks about knowing what medium would best suite the story you're trying to tell.

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🗓️ #279 - What will we make this year about?

Thanks for joining us again for the start of another Inneresting year! Even though a new year is a somewhat arbitrary place to make a fresh start, it's a good time to take stock. What have you been doing? What are you doing? What do you want to

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🎞️ #278 - Do we need a canon?

"I can't believe you haven't seen (x)!" In Scriptnotes episode 713, Danya Jimenez & Hannah McMechan talked briefly with John about how one element of film school is how it forces you to watch a lot of things you wouldn't necessarily seek

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🤖 #277 - Do we want to be more human?

While it's a long way from large language models to generalized artificial intelligence in the real world, there are plenty of stories where artificially sentient beings question their humanity (and if they really need any). Frequently stories about artificial life, whether created by science or magic, focus on

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🥪 #276 - Making a run for it

Earlier this week we did a close reading of the sequence in Ted Lasso where Roy Kent quits his TV job and rushes back to Nelson Road to give coaching a chance. Let's pull back a little bit to talk about the overall impact of a climactic run

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The Mad Dash Toward Love (feat. Roy Kent)

It’s easy to come up with quick setups for when a character needs to run away from something. All it takes is showing them in a place with someone or something they don’t want to be near. But what about when a character needs to run toward something

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🥪 #275 - Recipes for Leftovers

Sometimes the leftovers are the best part of the meal. Yes, on their own you can have yourself a microwaved portion of the same meal for several days, but because you can get creative. Just like how Monica Gellar invented the Moist Maker sandwich out of food from Thanksgiving dinner,

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☄️ #274 - Emotional Hot Potato

The blog Sketchplanations does a pretty concise job describing this week's topic. What happens when stress and anger become contagious? The 30 Rock episode "Chain Reaction of Mental Anguish" shapes its story around the same concept. Liz needs somebody to unload her problems on since she&

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On a scale of Frankenstein to Pygmalion

We're looking at the family tree of narratives stretching from two different stories about an unnatural creation of life. Dr. Frankenstein defied medical science and the forces of nature to turn dead flesh into a living being. As a result, the Doctor is punished and his creation acts