TOMBS Cycle

"MEET THE PARENTS is more simple than Rebel Ridge or Sinners that has clear contrasting and conflicting sources of antagonism. This has multiple sources of antagonism, but they're all aligned in what they're trying to do."

"You could see Transgression as being the opening of the film, Omens being the rest of the first act, the whole second act being Manifestation, and then the final act being Banishment, and then ending with Slumber."

"I think each sequence runs through its own tomb cycle. Each sequence culminates in a Banishment and a Slumber and then the next sequence starts with a new Transgression."

"I think by us learning about this paradigm, it will help us in that development stage of stories. [...] we can actually look at the forces of antagonism in a story."

"The Banishment is actually talking about the banishment of the sources of antagonism."

"And today we are looking at how to escalate antagonism within the story. And we are looking at this the lens that we are looking at escalating antagonism is through a paradigm that Stu discovered in the ttrpg horror Mothership and that paradigm is called TOMBS: Transgression Omens Manifestation Banishment and Slumber and I'm really excited about this topic."