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Not sure I understand what Coordinated Canon is.
From his description, it sounds like normal, human [corporate boardroom]-made media franchises like we have today, instead of stuff that's daydreamed on the fly by AI, watched one time by one person, then deleted and forgotten forever.
But wouldn't that mean the six film series mentioned in 2.2 is coordinated cannon? Or if it refers specifically to MULTIMEDIA franchises, did that six film series never get a video game tie in? If that's all it is, it doesn't seem like much of a distinction to me.
Comment by Rominova at 29/01/2025 at 03:51 UTC
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Coordinated Canon™ does seem like a project of interconnected shows, games, VR simulations, and any other media and merchandise they want to throw at it.
Also, perhaps onboards or other generated entertainment was/is so prevalent that a multimedia project directed by mainly a person is rare enough for a ™.
Comment by UncleThermoScales at 29/01/2025 at 03:06 UTC
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Pretty sure the idea of Coordinated Canon is less like a series and more like the cinamatic universes and other interconnected stuff we see these days. Like in a traditional series you'd have The Movie, The Movie 2, the Movie 3, maybe a spinoff in The Film or a prequel in The Movie 0, where as what they're talking about for Coordinaged Canon sounds more like The Superhero Movie, The Wizard Movie, The Spy Movie, but they reference eachother and exist in a single universe even if their stories never cross paths.
Actually that kinda sounds like Seek itself now that I think about it.
A multimedia version of Coordinated Canon would probably look something like what League of Legends is trying to do right now, mixing various video games, shows like Arcane, short stories, pretty sure there's even been comics.
Or maybe film series like 2.2's are Coordinated Canon and that just refers media that isn't AI generated. Pretty sure it's the former but I could be wrong.
Comment by Pteromys-Momonga at 30/01/2025 at 20:13 UTC
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The talk about Coordinated Canon actually reminded me of some discourse I've seen in the last decade or so about watching movies and especially TV shows on streaming services. I've seen a few articles lamenting, or at least observing, the loss of the "water cooler discussion" the day after the new episode of [Big Name TV Show] comes out, because everyone just binge-watches it on their own time instead.
Brothers did mention Coordinated Canon being multimedia, but he also told Amber that experiencing it "live" is different. So I think a lot of it is actually around the marketing and cultural effects - trying to go back to an era when everyone tuned in at the same time for the big finale, having the performers and directors doing interviews between episodes, maybe those little web specials that TV shows used to do to drum up more interest between seasons, having officially endorsed message boards and fan meetups, et cetera. Basically, trying to make media consumption more communal, because that's the most noticeable thing people don't get out of a custom-made piece of media.
Like many of the B chapters in Seek, I took this as a bit of a commentary on the current state of the entertainment/arts industry (just extrapolated outward a couple of centuries).