this thread is funny because I both highkey agree with a lot of what it's saying, but also, enjoy misery when it's what I know I'm signing up for; a lot of the most emotionally satisfying media I've ever consumed has been absolutely harrowing.https://twitter.com/clairewillett/status/1281339393500835840 …
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Replying to @segfaultvicta
The woman writing it identifies as a "Catholic feminist" and her overall argument seems to be pretty pro-uwu so frankly I'm tossing it in the trash and blocking her
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Replying to @BootlegGirl @segfaultvicta
it's hard to evaluate her thread since it's pretty lacking in concrete examples but then, if the real conclusion isn't "there must be a happy ending," if it's just "i prefer it when creators take their work seriously and create good stories," then that's nearly a tautology
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Replying to @perdricof @BootlegGirl
"people should write stuff that emotionally satisfies someone, somewhere, even themselves" is -fairly- so-obvious-as-to-state-nothing except that it relies on a concept of 'emotional satisfaction' that I feel like I can make hay out of somehow
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I'm trying to grapple with her meaning; I'm having trouble thinking of concrete examples of "deliberately emotionally unsatisfying to the audience" from TV/movies/games but it is something that comes up regularly in opera staging, probably other live theatre as well
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Replying to @patiencemosher @segfaultvicta and
like, Eurotrash opera/Regietheater is alllllll about il faut épater les bourgeois and yes, I personally hate it even though it often gets great reviews from critics I do not agree with even a tiny little bit
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Replying to @patiencemosher @segfaultvicta and
Rejecting the Greek principles of mimesis and catharsis as unhelpful to making revolutionary art was the whole Brechtian project
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Replying to @arthur_affect @patiencemosher and
Yeah, and frankly screw revolutionary art I just wanna fcking feel something. I wanna fcking relate to the miserable characters on screen But I don't get to have that. Lesbian and trans representation is disposable in the pursuit of purity
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Yeah weirdly The Beginner's Guide and The Stanley Parable are an extremely pure example of deliberately refusing to give any catharsis to the audience so it's weird their creator would concern troll over a classic Greek tragedy like TLoU 2 this way
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