> “You’re budgeting and trying to imagine, ‘What are we going to need for the last episode of this season that hasn’t been written yet?’ ” he says. “Eventually, it comes and smacks you in the face.”
> Working out the story arc in advance gives a much better sense of what the show requires in terms of sets, locations, cast, and all the other expensive variables that go into creating a fictional world.
Its absolutely crazy US TV is developed in this way: make a pilot knowing nothing about any story arcs, and just hope you can budget and bluff your way to a finale?
It's blindly obvious it has been done this way. Hopefully this change will improve plots.
> Working out the story arc in advance gives a much better sense of what the show requires in terms of sets, locations, cast, and all the other expensive variables that go into creating a fictional world.
Its absolutely crazy US TV is developed in this way: make a pilot knowing nothing about any story arcs, and just hope you can budget and bluff your way to a finale?
It's blindly obvious it has been done this way. Hopefully this change will improve plots.