[ SECRET POST #3771 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3771 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

Okay, but if you're engaging in it as IF it were real, then are we not watching pretending it that these are real people making real decisions?

Like, it doesn't absolve the writers of bad writing, but realistic choices from a character's perspective (ie being alone for a year and finally coming to the decision to wake someone else) might be a poor decision, but I don't see it as bad writing when intense loneliness might lead to poor decisions.

[(Anonymous)]

Acting as though they're real implies that you're able to step back and realize that they're not real. It's an attitude that we adopt and discard at will, and analyzing a work solely from that perspective is just necessarily limited and flawed.

In this case, we can see that it might be a realistic choice from the character's perspective. But we can also see the genre and the other fictional narrative conventions in the story, and how those artistic conventions shape the way that we approach the character, and the kind of emotional realism you're talking about is one stylistic and narrative choice among many. It's not an intrinsically correct style, and I think basically the core of my argument is that specific kind of realism is a weird, inappropriate fit with the genre and narrative around it, and it has unfortunate implications. I think it's bad writing, not because it's unrealistic, but because it's realistic in a way that doesn't really fit what's around it. And I think approaching things that way is a pretty instinctive part of how we approach narrative - maybe not in such an explicit way, but it's part of the language of story.