The practice of constructing elaborate fictional worlds in fantasy and sci-fi, critiqued as requiring excessive attention at the expense of other narrative elements.
"The complexity of the setting hardly ever correlates positively with emotional and thematic complexity. Nerdification of narrative, bogging it down with detail that has no impact on the soul."
"I have lost the ability to care about the rules and backstory of a new fantasy world. I don't care if films operate under the logic of the real world, and I like the surrealism/magical realism of people like Lynch, Kaufman and Apichatpong, but I tend to check out whenever I sense that a piece of med"