Having debuted nationwide on February 17, Ant-Man and the Wasp: Quantumania has now been in theaters for over two months. Marvel Studios’ promotional efforts have since shifted to advertising Guardians of the Galaxy Vol. 3, coming May 5. But in light of Quantumania’s recent availability to purchase digitally, and in advance of its upcoming availability on Disney+ on May 17, it seemed appropriate...
Would anyone think less of the Terminator franchise if Terminator 2: Judgment Day (1991) were its final film? The Terminator (1984) and T2 function well as a duology. The franchise has only been able to proceed from Judgment Day by undermining it. Since T2, every Terminator film except Terminator: Salvation (2009) has tried and failed to recapture the same magic. Rise of the Machines (2003)...
Many of the most popular and influential books on writing drama and fiction focus on plot structure—and rightly so, for without structure narratives could not function. Considerably less emphasis has been placed on understanding serialized narratives and how their structures differ from non-serialized narratives. Over the next few entries in this blog, I intend to articulate some of my ideas and...
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