- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
Episodic Quotes
These episodic quotes explore storytelling told in parts, from an underexplored film format to a quirky web series and the discipline of finding an emotional spine each episode.
Telling a story episode by episode takes discipline, and these quotes describe the craft behind episodic work, plus what it's Like to build a series one piece at a time.
- Last Updated on May 30, 2021
- Epic
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- Nov 07, 2020
Epic stories, especially 'quest narratives' like 'The Iliad' and 'The Odyssey,' are brilliant structures for storytelling. The quest lends itself to episodic storytelling.
- Character
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- Nov 07, 2020
I think the character does tend to suit an episodic thing, because what's fun about him is that he doesn't care about anyone else, and it's very difficult for a main character - a lead character - in a movie to not care about anybody else.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020
The danger of serialization is that you almost get into a monotone - where they all have the same beat and pace, and it's all one long thing - and when you can kind of do this interesting mixture of episodic and serialization, you can kind of take the audience on a more interesting journey.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I try to approach all episodic work the same. No matter the content. I look for a dramatic or emotional spine to the story I'm telling, something that stands out to me thematically about the episode and its relationship to the rest of the season/series.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
Being a regular in a television series, for me - if I wanted to be a cop, I woulda went to cop school. If I wanted to be a doctor, I would've gone to medical school. You get trapped in your normal episodic television shows, basically doing the same thing.
- New
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- Nov 07, 2020
Yes, we're trying some new stuff. Some of it might work. Some of it might not. This, of course, is the nature of episodic television. They can't all be gems.
- People
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- Nov 07, 2020
I've done episodic television and some other things that have been written by other people.
- Better
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- Nov 07, 2020
It was acting, and WWE is the longest-running weekly episodic program in television. Sure, there are story lines that are better than others.
- Imagine
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- Nov 07, 2020
One of my first episodic jobs was on 'Twin Peaks,' if you can imagine that - one of the most unusual series ever.
- Night
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- Nov 07, 2020
One thing I'm working on is an episodic web series titled 'One Warm Night.' It's a kinda crazy, quirky series, filled with a lot of misfits, oddballs... ninjas.
- Discrimination
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- Nov 07, 2020
Certainly, the poverty, the discrimination, the episodic unemployment could not but strike an inquiring youngster: why did these exist, and what could we do about them.
- Like
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- Nov 07, 2020
Feature-length film comedy is harder to pull off than the episodic sitcom - it doesn't have the same factory machinery up and running, teams of writers putting familiar characters through permutations - but that doesn't explain the widening quality gap that makes movie humor look like a genetic defective.
- Me
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- Nov 07, 2020
I'm a sports fanatic. It's hard for me to commit to the weekly, episodic nature of television, so for me, anytime that I can put a game on, that's what I do.
- Long
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- Nov 07, 2020