What do you guys think about Dan Harmons circle for writing story

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>>9735687
>Dan Harmon

>>9735694
Yeah I know he's a cuck and yada yada, but does the wheel make sense or is there a better story structure format for writing episodic content?

>>9735687
This works for Godzilla

pretty much only episodic yeah, but you can write some books like that so.

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>>9735687
He just stole the monomyth and turned it into a banal story-writing device?

How is this any different to Field's Three-act structure?

>>9735687
>writing story plot
I think you just need to unload as many associations as possible onto the reader, and make her pump out those neurotransmitters, until her mind fucking blows just like that

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I can't see how this circle-thing would work outside of genre fiction.

Pretty much identical to the protagonist Joseph Campbell's 'Hero with a thousand faces' and J Peterson's 'slay the dragon, bring back the treasure' bit

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>>9735743
Ex of an episode.

In his explanation he also wrote why the first matrix worked so well, since it was using the story structure of other stuff the two brothers enjoyed, but after that for matrix 2 and 3 they had no such structure or something to base it off and so it was a total mess.

>>9735762
It's not like the second two Matrix movies had hundreds of problems unrelated to the basic narrative. It's not like it is impossible to apply that retarded structure to countless important works of literature.