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Focus group endings are a thing TV and movie producers have been doing for decades. It's not surprising these new media companies are coming up with some versio
by avar 8y ago
Focus group endings are a thing TV and movie producers have been doing for decades. It's not surprising these new media companies are coming up with some version of that which makes sense in the digital era. I'm only surprised that it took so long.
- beat 8y agoIt doesn't even require focus groups. If you buy into Joseph Campbell's monomyth, or the more modern idea of tropes, then telling the stories people want and expect is so ingrained in our storytelling that it's hard to not do it. That's what amazed me most about Breaking Bad... how effectively it undermined our storytelling expectations.