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Where the Season 2 Story Structure Went Wrong

Posted on June 10, 2019June 10, 2019 by Professor Noone

I just finished Season 2 today, and while I think it was overall pretty decent, it certainly didn’t live up to the quality of Season 1. I suspect a lot of this is from what I’ll call Season One Depletion. Basically, you have writers who’ve had ideas percolating in their heads for years, then they…

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The Unique Three-Dimensionality of Johnny Lawrence

Posted on June 6, 2019October 12, 2020 by Professor Noone

(Full disclosure, I haven’t seen Season 2 yet. Waiting to get over my Game of Thrones hangover before diving in.) Borrowing from Michael Byers’s Faking Shapely Fiction, a three-dimensional character needs to possess three characteristics: unaligned traits, spectrum traits, and self-reflection. Unaligned traits are those which can go together, but we don’t expect them to….

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The Novella is the Right Form for Cobra Kai

Posted on May 20, 2019May 20, 2019 by Professor Noone

This will be the first in a short series of posts where I’m breaking down just why Cobra Kai’s Season 1 was so good (I haven’t seen Season 2 yet, we’re using it to fill the break between GoT and Stranger Things). It’s also the summer, I’m done grading papers and instead of responding to…

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