[ SECRET POST #4789 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4789 ⌋

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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

To me, there’s intelligent writing, and then there’s intelligent topical content.

Intelligent writing can show up anywhere and kind of look like anything? BoJack Horseman has incredibly intelligent writing, IMO. GLOW has intelligent writing. BSG had intelligent writing and so did Mad Men, etc., etc.

If a bunch of people tout the writing of a particular thing as intelligent, I’m likely to at least look into it a little.

But if I get the impression that what’s being called intelligent is the topical content, I tend to be a lot more skeptical. Because honestly? I really don’t think fiction is very good at providing topical content in a genuinely intelligent way. You get all these forensic shows and medical shows and law shows and people have a tendency to tout them as “intelligent” because they’re about shit you need to get a Masters or a PhD to be qualified to deal with. But fiction needs to be entertaining and engaging, which means factual accuracy must often be sacrificed, and usually any kind of sincere, in-depth look into what these fields are really like and what that means for society doesn’t really happen either.

Or you get the Sherlock types shows, which artificially complicate their plots and conflate “cleverness” with intelligence, which for my money is just- like- can we not?