Measuring Success: The Unsatisfying Notion of “Good Endings” and “Bad Endings”
Sometimes stories need to end badly in order to be really good.
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‘Firewatch’ and the Case of the Much Too Obvious MacGuffin
In creating a plot device to motivate its characters, a MacGuffin, Firewatch competes against itself, with a story that it is a gimmick and a story that it really wants us to care about.