[ SECRET POST #3149 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3149 ⌋

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Comments

Re: I feel like a lot of real life romance is inexplicable, too.

[intrigueing]

Uh, what? No, it's the complete opposite! Of course you can hold fiction to a higher standard -- that's sort of the whole point of fiction, to write a story where the author has control over it, unlike real life.

Fiction is meant to tell a story that communicates something to the viewer/reader (even a story that's intended to be "meaningless" has some kind of meaning -- like 'life is random and nonsensical' or something.) Unlike real life, where people really don't have control over their feelings, in fiction there's absolutely no excuse for an author to both write a shitty and unbelievable romance AND intend for the audience to see it as good and believable -- you can have one or you can have the other, but if you have both it is bad writing, pure and simple.

Re: I feel like a lot of real life romance is inexplicable, too.

[(Anonymous)]

Congratulations on missing the whole point of entertainment.

Re: I feel like a lot of real life romance is inexplicable, too.

[intrigueing]

How is that missing the whole point of entertainment? I'm not saying that something you communicate has to be "deep" or have a moral or a message or a point or anything. What it communicates can be as simple as "this is fun! Lets have fun!" and be perfectly good.

But if the author is trying to communicate something poignant - like "this romance is good, care about these people" and instead comes off as saying something not poignant - like "this romance is awful" it isn't entertaining (unless of course it's so extreme it falls into the 'so bad it's good' territory, or stuff like that).

Re: I feel like a lot of real life romance is inexplicable, too.

[(Anonymous)]

I was referring to suspension of disbelief.

Re: I feel like a lot of real life romance is inexplicable, too.

[intrigueing]

Suspension of disbelief =/= "it's fiction, so believe it because I say so," especially when it comes to emotions/psychology rather than external stuff like magic, sci-fi, special effects, improbable coincidences, etc. Even if it's not realistic according to real life, it has to still be convincing/believable in the story itself.