[ SECRET POST #2791 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2791 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I don't know if I entirely agree because "death of the author" and analysis of text divorced from the intentions of the author has been around for so long, disagreeing with the way a piece of media goes out objecting to it being in or out of character is not really a new way of engaging with texts. So I think that for at least that long, people haven't just taken word of creator as word of God.

[anonymous4]

Death of the author's a different thing, though. Saying that a story has meanings an author never consciously intended is not the same as saying that a story should do X, Y and Z, and basing your criticism on showing whether it does or doesn't.

[(Anonymous)]

But they're not talking about "death of the author." They're talking about there being a single valid template for telling stories.

[anonymous4]

Yes! Glad it was intelligible!

And a lot of criticism seems to assume that this template is universally known and accepted, and that if a writer -- like, ahem, Steven Moffat -- doesn't conform to it, it's either because he doesn't know it, and so isn't qualified to write, or because he's deliberately ignoring it, to arrogantly piss off the fans.