What ideology drives Rosa? How does Spyfall conceive of history? What does it mean to blend the sci-fi butterfly effect with historical racism? What sort of scenes were cut from Rosa? What inspired Chibnall to write Spyfall? We explore these questions in a metacommentary unpacking the audio commentary tracks for Rosa, and Spyfall: Part One.
Along the way, we discuss free association writing, social implications of multiverse fiction, politicised time travel, thematic incongruity, untenable social myths, narrative truisms, dollhouse conceptions of racism, decontextualisation, actionability, applicability, & more!
(00:00:00) Rosa & Spyfall
(00:02:19) Compartmentalised coverage + action & application
(00:13:07) The slap + mindsets towards racism
(00:22:39) G. F. B.
(00:24:03) 13 & Bansky + Malorie Blackman interview
(00:29:29) Companions & exposition
(00:33:24) ‘I don’t recognise anyone by that description’
(00:35:24) Steve Jobs joke
(00:36:17) Yaz and Ryan’s racism discussion
(00:44:05) ‘It’s very largely a story about a bus’
(00:45:45) Claudette Colvin + historical agency
(00:54:51) Cut scene from Rosa + storytelling priorities
(01:01:30) Martin Luther King’s inclusion
(01:02:53) Butterfly effect
(01:10:08) Voting & loopholes
(01:18:21) Krasko’s departure
(01:21:10) Alabama inaccuracy
(01:22:04) Rise Up
(01:26:02) Asteroids & agency
(01:30:25) Malorie Blackman’s research
(01:35:44) Spyfall: Part One + basketball
(01:39:15) Genesis of Spyfall
(01:46:43) Tosin Cole’s acting addition
(01:48:02) ADR & scripting tangles
(01:51:46) Continuity & inconsistencies
(01:52:56) Yaz and the Master’s flirtation
(01:54:59) Sacha Dhawan’s range
(01:57:27) Multiverse fiction & fake agency
(02:10:23) Outro…
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