{"id":2442,"date":"2017-09-04T17:50:03","date_gmt":"2017-09-04T17:50:03","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/On-the-third-watch-I-think-Ive-figured-out-why-I-like-Zootopia-so-much"},"modified":"2017-09-04T17:50:03","modified_gmt":"2017-09-04T17:50:03","slug":"on-the-third-watch-i-think-ive-figured-out-why-i-like-zootopia-so-much","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2017\/09\/04\/on-the-third-watch-i-think-ive-figured-out-why-i-like-zootopia-so-much\/","title":{"rendered":"On the third watch, I think I&#8217;ve figured out why I like Zootopia so much."},"content":{"rendered":"        \n<p>On the third watch, I think I&#8217;ve figured out why I like <em>Zootopia<\/em> so much. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I mean, yes, the visual beauty, the inspiring message, the clever dialog, the catchy song. But lots of kids&#8217; movies have those; it&#8217;s almost the price of entry. What makes <em>Zootopia<\/em> stand out, not only among movies but among written stories, is how carefully the writers have tucked in all the corners and made use of reincorporation. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>From the opening school play (which achieves exposition while being entertaining, also hard to do), through the subsequent bully encounter, the carrot pen\/voice recorder, the blueberries, the DMV guy, the song, the tiny vole&#8230; no detail is too small to tie to another moment in the film. (On this third watch, I noticed that Assistant Mayor Bellwether has a post-it by her phone with the name &#8220;Doug,&#8221; which links up later on.) The whole thing feels tightly woven together. Nothing is too small to be important, which also neatly reinforces the message of the film. <\/p>\n\n\n\n<p><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This is why, when I work through the second draft of <em>Illustrated Gnome News<\/em>, I&#8217;ll be replacing a couple of new minor characters with similar characters who&#8217;ve appeared in previous books. But I&#8217;ll also look for other opportunities to do this tight weaving, especially in my short fiction, where it&#8217;s particularly effective. <\/p>\n\n      ","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>        On the third watch, I think I&#8217;ve figured out why I like Zootopia so much.<br \/>\n       <a href=\"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/2017\/09\/04\/on-the-third-watch-i-think-ive-figured-out-why-i-like-zootopia-so-much\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":77,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"content-type":"","_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0},"categories":[68],"tags":[94],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/77"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=2442"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/2442\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=2442"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=2442"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/csidemedia.com\/mikerm\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=2442"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}