And while it certainly has enough of those trappings, it's also repeatedly hamstrung by its episodic nature, jerking from inciting incident to inciting incident without a clear through-line and leaving the whole thing undernourished.
In HyperNormalisation, that inciting incident is a local government meeting in New York City in 1975.
"This is our inciting incident," Mr. Guterman said with a slightly sheepish smile.
But then there's an event in screenwriting, we call it the "inciting incident"—that throws life out of balance.
Pillar of Autumn The crash of the starship Pillar of Autumn on the ringworld later known as Installation 04 is the inciting incident of the original Halo trilogy.
The architecture Mr. Crabb teaches — setup, inciting incident, raising stakes — is closer to the map of a screenplay than of a stand-up bit, or sketch or improv scene.
Instead, with Into the Woods, he takes a scalpel to narrative structure – dissecting protagonist, antagonist, inciting incident, crisis and so on – before asking how and why this underlying shape still holds audiences spellbound like a fairytale witch.
But also, that was the story of Oakland in that moment and I think that was sort of the inciting incident of the film.
Where is the inciting incident?
What specific actions were taken in response to the inciting incident?
The opinions expressed seem to be the Inciting Incident, although at the time it wasn't clear there was a problem.
