The Magic That Works, To Me, Is

Whenever A Toddler Sees A Pile Of Blocks, He Wants To Tear It Down.

Withholding Things In A Story Is No Good If You Aren't Building To Something Substantial. It Becomes Foreplay Without The Main Event, And No One Wants That.

On Movies Like Star Trek And Star Wars, You Have So Much That Will Be Created Or Extended Digitally, And It's A Slippery Slope Where You Can Get Lost In A World Of Synthetic.

If You Watch The First [star Wars] Movie, You Don't Actually Know Exactly What The Empire Is Trying To Do. They're Going To Rule By Fear -- But You Don't Know What Their Endgame Is. You Don't Know What Leia Is Princess Of. You Don't Yet Understand Who Jabba The Hutt Is, Even Though There Is A Reference To Him. You Don't Know That Vader Is Luke's Father, Leia Is His Sister -- But The Possibility Is All There. The Beauty Of That Movie Was That It Was An Unfamiliar World, And Yet You Wanted To See It Expand And To See Where It Went.

It's A Leap Of Faith Doing Any Serialised Storytelling.