Week 5: Evaluating a Decision
Crisis on Infinite Earths, the option it passed over, and the method every Continuity Briefing uses. Given as a slide deck.
23 March 2027
This lecture is given from the slides. The case is Crisis on Infinite Earths; the method is the one every Continuity Briefing follows.
Outline#
- A promise with a date on it. The newspaper in the pilot of The Flash.
- The decision, and the option it passed over. Merging the Earths, or keeping them apart.
- Pricing both, and saying for whom. The studio, the viewer who watches every show, and the viewer who watches one.
- The method. Five steps, in the order a Briefing takes them.
Learning outcomes
This lecture introduces:
- Evaluate a franchise's continuity strategy against the alternatives it passed over.
Teaching team
- Dr Ines Carrow — convenor