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141 | Television Writing Foundations w/ Javier Grillo-Marxauch

The Screenwriting Life with Meg LeFauve and Lorien McKenna

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The Dark Crystal: A Puppet Show

"I have had two expo dumps in my career that I think are the things I've been proudest of ever one of them was on the dark crystal which is that we had to figure out how like I don't know if you've seen the dark crystal the mythology of the dark crystal makes no goddamn sense," he said. "That actually smoothed over a lot of the kind of weird bumps in the narrative because you know and in trying to get the exposition or uncoragingly the other time I did an Expo dump was I wrote a script about people who've been abducted by aliens."

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