There is a lot to unpack here, but the first thing that jumped out at me: film and television are about more than just “driving plot points.”

(Sex scenes can obviously drive plot points. “The Terminator” doesn’t just need its leads to fall in love, it needs them to have sex.) https://twitter.com/kasi_irving/status/1343971968836628483

One of the worst things to happen to “the discourse” around cinema is the elevation of “plot” above everything else.

The obsession with “plot holes”, with “spoilers”, with “canon.” The reduction of so much pop culture to an index card or checklist of “things that happened.”

This ignores the fact that, in a good film or series or story, why or how something happens is as important as the fact that it happened.

And that “why or how” can be rooted in character, but it can also be rooted in things like theme. Things other than plot.

It’s okay for plot to drive a film or show, but it’s also okay for character or theme or mood or lots of other things to drive a film or show.

Movies and series aren’t LEGO sculptures constructed out of “plot bricks”, where everything has a predefined or correct place.

Anyway, this has been my rant. Apologies.

But we’ve reached the point where the obsession with plot as the be all and end all is being weaponised and monetised by large corporations.

So I don’t think it’s going anywhere, sadly. https://www.escapistmagazine.com/v2/disney-weaponized-spoiler-culture-marketing-strategy/