Act 2 is About Context, Not Conflict

[Venkatesh Rao]

Excellent ideas. This also reminds me of this theory of Japanese fiction being about action/reaction rather than conflict. https://www.tofugu.com/japan/japanese-horror-structure/

[Simon de la Rouviere]

Thanks! And yeah, I wrote about Kishotenketsu a few years ago. https://blog.simondlr.com/posts/kishotenketsu