[ SECRET POST #2542 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2542 ⌋

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Comments

[forgottenjester]

They're probably doing better than you because they're fake characters with fake problems and fake goals. You, on the other hand, are a real person with real problems and real goals. Everything is handed to them by an all-powerful writer who wants their lives to be perfect. You don't have that ease.

Really, fake characters will always have it better because they're fake. Always.

EVERYONE NEEDS TO READ FORGOTTENJESTER'S COMMENT

[(Anonymous)]

+1

This is also why I can't stand to watch much TV these days.

Re: EVERYONE NEEDS TO READ FORGOTTENJESTER'S COMMENT

[forgottenjester]

Aw, thank you.

Hmm, I'm picky about I watch for similarish reasons.

[queerwolf]

Exactly this. Couldn't have said it better.

[forgottenjester]

Thank you. That's sweet of you.

[(Anonymous)]

And even the "poor" fake characters usually have really huge, really awesome apartments/houses and rarely seem to wear the same article of clothing twice. Even when they are given some realistic problems related to not having much money or having a sucky job or living with their parents, they all still look really stylish and have plenty of space and cool friends.

[forgottenjester]

Pretty much. I mean, even movies "based on" real events are changed dramatically in both directions. There are a lot of war heroes that have their record of amazing things downsized in movies because "it wouldn't be believable." There are movies supposedly documenting the treatment of poor factory workers or something and you know they pick and choose who to show, tailoring it for their purposes.

So if things based on the real can't even get it right, why would anyone think something purely imagined out of another person's head would be any better?

[51stcenturyfox]

A lot of TV is also aspirational/aimed at getting sponsors to sell their things, and people want to buy more material goods when they see characters enjoying their material goods/carefree lifestyle/blabla.

[(Anonymous)]

This! While it's not tv, I remember reading in a mainstream comic where a couple characters were supposedly -just- getting by, and worried and stressed out over it -- and they live in an apartment complex with a doorman and an elevator in NYC. Where, apparently, ~5-6 of their super-cool friends who are artists and whatnot also live, and in a space large enough where said friends can all hang out, comfortably.

[(Anonymous)]

This is the reason I can't be bothered with most of the English language dystopia genre. They are clearly written by people who haven't even grew up on anything but first world comfort, and it shows.

[shadowvalkyrie]

This. That's one reason (besides the escapism) I prefer genre shows. They're not meant to be realistic, so I'll more readily suspend my disbelief on the character's living expenses and looks. But if the show is supposed to be realistic, and the unemployed main character has a mould-free 100m² skyline-view apartment, eats out every day, and dresses like a supermodel, my eyes will roll out of my skull.

[quantumreality]

I think Orwell had the advantage over modern dystopia-writers. He had actually lived through an era of incredible deprivation and had seen and probably lived in all sorts of clapped-out rubbishy old buildings that weren't even fit for cockroaches.

[(Anonymous)]

Patlabor?

[(Anonymous)]

Hey, I love my home cooked lunch! And wearing the same jeans few times in a row is perfectly normal. Just change your Tshirts. I remember getting a haircut at home, ahh, fun times. I hate bugs, my symphaties.

There was a TV show mentioned here on fs about a poor family... it was a sitcom.

I love fics exploring lifestyles of financially straggling characters. The last one I've read was set in the Dresden Files. May be I find it interesting because I'm curious as I don't have to be on a budget myself... Anyway, sorry for rumbling. ^^

[cassandraoftroy]

Yup. Fictional characters only have problems that advance their characterization or the plot of the story they're in; they never have problems just because shit happens, and they certainly don't have any problem that would get in the way of the story their author wanted to tell.

[forgottenjester]

Pretty much. We don't have that luxury where everything in our lives fit nicely into place in our streamlines lives.

[arcadiaego]

Unless they're Will Graham.