A lot of people roll their eyes at how serious magicians are about opposing "exposure" and say "If knowing how the trick was done ruins the trick it wasn't a good performance" Dawkins-style "Nothing worth defending rests on ignorance" lectures
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Yup. Which is why I love their movies even if I wish they'd move past "there is a bag of money" as the story prompt
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The Coen Brothers, incidentally, are the perfect example of the kind of media I grew up consuming, and where my only complaint about any of it is that it's about cishet men (except Fargo I guess). I don't want the tone to change, or the plots. Just put queer ppl and women in
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This is assuming that the primary means of enjoyment one gets is novelty though, and there's certainly an occupational hazard of (some) professional writers and creators wanting to do New Stuff or Quirky Stuff which satisfies their need for novelty but not necessarily an audience
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And of course such pro creators working for the trade want to Do Something New, but I feel like it's a mistake to conflate their weariness with audience ambivalence
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