I’ve been watching THE MANDALORIAN and have come to two conclusions:<\/p>\n
1.) I like it better than the STAR WARS sequel trilogy.<\/p>\n
2.) Every episode is a good example of story structure.<\/p>\n
Like, you can see the structure in every episode. I don’t mean that scornfully, but with high praise. Story structure is harder to do than people realize. But you can see the bones of good structure in each episode:<\/p>\n
1.) Mando has a problem.<\/p>\n
2.) Mando sets out to resolve his problem.<\/p>\n
3.) Unexpected difficulties arise when Mando tries to solve his problem.<\/p>\n
4.) Some of Mando’s efforts to resolve his problem backfire and cause additional problems and complications.<\/p>\n
5.) Through courage and cleverness, Mando overcomes his problem. Until the next episode, anyway.<\/p>\n
It’s really well done. It’s also a nice touch that Mando isn’t a Space Wizard or the Chosen One, but just a guy who had good training and some good equipment. So if you want to see good examples of excellent story structure, you could do much worse than watching THE MANDALORIAN.<\/p>\n
-JM<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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