In essence, that’s what a Threshold Guardian is.

The hero is at point A.

They need to be at point C.

But point B is blocked by someone / something.

The Mentor is, in most cases, the character that reminds the audience what it is the whole story is about. If a story is Thesis / Antithesis / Synthesis, where the antagonist represents antithesis and the hero strives for synthesis, the Mentor represents the thesis.

Hollywood is dying. The era of peak TV is rumoured to be in its final days, and everybody wants to know where it went wrong. As industries collapse, major corporations are trying to monopolise what’s left, squeezing the final pennies into their bank before the inevitable collapse. Transmedia practices offer a collaborative, adaptive, audience focused and artist centric way to tell stories. Done right, they can build exponentially outside the Hollywood system and hopefully, one day, replace it.