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Case ([personal profile] case) wrote in [community profile] fandomsecrets2013-05-05 03:31 pm

[ SECRET POST #2315 ]


⌈ Secret Post #2315 ⌋

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[personal profile] cbrachyrhynchos 2013-05-05 10:23 pm (UTC)(link)
I'd say that the current wave of grimdark/noir writing came about because some genres were thoroughly bowdlerized by editorial demands and industry self-censorship. So you ended up with a long string of the worst Batman stories where both Batman and the antagonist were equally ridiculous, the villain because he never posed a real threat, and Batman because he could pull an equally ridiculous machina ex deus out of the cave in the last act.

So, the pendulum swung from predictable, trite, and meaningless happy conclusions to predictable, trite, and meaningless grimdark.

(Anonymous) 2013-05-06 04:05 am (UTC)(link)
the pendulum swung from predictable, trite, and meaningless happy conclusions to predictable, trite, and meaningless grimdark

And, as is the nature of things, the pendulum will swing back again to happy endings. (But it won't REALLY be a happy ending, because the pendulum will then start to move back towards grimdark, and then...) ;)