Elements Covered
  1. OVERVIEW
  2. Page turner?  Antecedents?  
  3. Paradigm.  Unique?  
  1. CHARACTERIZATION
  2. Believable and consistent with human nature?  
  3. Protagonist clear and sympathetic or identifiable?  
  4. Goals and obstacles?
  5. Growth, arc, journey?
  6. Active or passive?  
  7. Complex or cliched?
  8. Actions motivated by events?  
  9. Supporting characters help delineate main ones?  
  10. Dimensional?  
  11. Antagonist evenly matched?
  12.  Focused?
  1. CRAFT
  2. Set-ups?  
  3. Pay-offs.  
  4. Devices.  
  5. Logic.  
  6. Coincidence.  
  7. Exposition.  
  8. Deus ex machina.
  9. Rear view clues?
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  1. STRUCTURE
  2. Conflict:  Clear early?
  3. Build steadily?
  4. Strong enough?  
  5. Tension?  Jeopardy?  
  6. Stakes?  Dynamic?
  1. RELATIONSHIPS
  2. Dynamic?
  3. Feed Characterization/plot?
OTHER ELEMENTS EXAMINED: Denouement; Tone; Writing; Description; Technicalities; Setting/Production Values; Milieu; Budget; Marketability; Genre Requirements. And much more! THEME/PREMISE High or low concept? Clear theme? Timely? Familiar? New twists? Universal/Particular? Guiding idea. Theme worked through sub-plots?
  1. PACING
  2. Exciting opening?
  3. Scenes choppy or smooth?
  4. Episodic?
  5. Transitions?
  6. Momentum?
  7. Suspense?
  8. Ticking Clock?
  1. THROUGHLINE
  2. Strong narrative drive or meandering?
  3. Motor (Engine, fuel?)
  4. Events organic or arbitrary?
  5. Acts, sequences, scenes, beats.
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