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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2015-02-24 07:02 pm

[ SECRET POST #2974 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2974 ⌋

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Re: OP

[personal profile] cbrachyrhynchos 2015-02-25 04:36 am (UTC)(link)
And this is why we have death of the author, writers trying to turn sow's ears into silk purses after the fact because we just didn't approach their work with the right interpretation in hand.

No Helper, perhaps we didn't go there with Anders because Bioware gave us a dozen other characters driven mad by Lovecraftian magic. About the only improvement you brought to that particular theme and variation was ditching the racism and replacing the purple prose with stilted scenery chewing with all the grace of a golem in a china shop. And in those dozen examples, you didn't offer anything that wasn't the standard fantasy, power corrupts BULLSHIT. After the circus parade of everything from the serial killer, to the demon possessed, to the repressed-memory case, to a half-dozen flavors of addiction, you expect us to treat your grotesque oversimplification of religion, prejudice, and terrorism as serious business with a realistic mental illness subtext?

Perhaps you might want to consider that actually exploring these complex issues in a fantastic fiction narrative might require cutting away the dead weight of a game system that rewards the player for mass homicide.
Edited 2015-02-25 04:55 (UTC)