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The Sensory Supernatural

Fundamentally, something TV and film cannot do is control the viewerâ€™s response to sensory experience.

This generally comes up in fantasy or fantasy tangential genres that involve emotional or psychological effects of visual or auditory phenomenona. Stuff like:

Songs that lull the listener to sleep
Inhumanly beautiful beings
Entities that rend the mind to look at
Geometry that isnâ€™t visually comprehensible
A plain wooden goblet that fills the faithful with strength

Itâ€™s why you could never do a really good adaptation of, say, the Dresden Files. Thereâ€™s no way to make the Fae look as good as theyâ€™re supposed to.

Add scent and touch as things that film and TV canâ€™t touch. In writing, you can describe anything having effects on characters that canâ€™t be sold in a visual medium.

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