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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).
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