Comments by "p11" (@porky1118) on "Trope Talk: Save The World" video.

  1. I recently started to think, I should start small. I could write the same story twice, but in the first one, only the health of the hero's mate is threatened, in the second one, the universe will be destroyed forever. Which of these stories is better? In the first one, you can at least raise the stakes in a sequel. In the second one you could lower the stakes in a sequel? Can this be interesting? At least it's something, you don't see very often. You can think "What's worse than having the whole world destroyed?" Maybe it's worse, when everything is destroyed but you, but you cannot die. Or your mate dies. Only everyone you like dies. And if you find new friends, they die shortly afterwards. Or maybe there just is no real danger anymore. What kinds of stories can you make under this premise?
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  2. You could destroy the world, and when you want to add more content, it's prequels. Maybe there are multiple character arcs, which are told one after another, and either stop, when the character dies or when the world is destroyed. So in the first character arc, the character just has a happy end, gets old and dies. In the second, the character dies unexpectedly. In the third one, the world is destroyed. And after that, you know, that the world will be destroyed after a certain time. Except something weird happens and the world is not destroyed at the same time in the arc of another character. Similar to that weird comic movie, where all women are naked and have big breasts and a big green ball tells stories about how it destroyed the world to a victim, and in the last story it tells, the green ball is destroyed and after it recognizes that, it's also destroyed in the present...
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