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I came to the recent realisation how much I dislike narrative stakes which rely solely on life-or-death situations. This realisation was prompted by thinking about spoilers, and how I interact with spoilers. That whole topic is a separate one, but this particular realisation involves narrative tension. Narrative tension is what keeps an audience in: it’sContinue reading “On the shallowness of life or death stakes played straight”