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Timeline
0:00 Intro
0:11 Chekhov’s Armory
1:42 The “Everything but the Kitchen Sink” syndrome
3:12 Worldbuilding Vertigo
5:08 Inspiration Indigestion
6:37 The Aesthetics over Ethics Trap
8:34 Dialogue Ventriloquism
9:53 Metaphor Overdose
11:18 Lack of Character Motivation
12:53 Temporally Shortsighted
14:11 The “Gotcha” Spiral
16:15 Checklist Character Development
17:28 “Subtext is Everything” Syndrome