Screenwriting isn't the same thing as poetry - it's certainly not the same thing as *written* poetry (as opposed to spoken word) A good line for the stage or the screen is not the same thing as a good line that still seems really cool and deep when written out in text
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And whatever smarter, cooler, deeper line you're imagining in its place almost certainly *would not work* and would be objectively bad, by virtue of calling attention to the writer's jadedness with "cliches" and insecure desperation to seem "subversive"
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(The best line I have ever personally heard about grief is not this line It's a line from something you've never heard of and it's just someone saying "Well... maybe he doesn't *want* to be happy")
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(By itself, it's not a very interesting line at all and *of course* the concept it's describing is extremely simple and obvious But as the final emotional beat in a scene it rattled me really hard I flash back to it when looking at my own self-sabotage all the time)
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Can't help but notice that folks I've seen make fun of it are people who generally take a dim view of being earnest. I'm tired of cynical. I want earnest. The show delivers on a human subject that television, including the kind referenced on that show, often shies away from.
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I just think some of them are funny. “What is good grief but Lucy taking away the football at the last second” is my fave. Doesn’t mean the original isn’t also great.
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It's very in character for Vision - he's using logic to work out a difficult concept, and is not trying to be poetic, only accurate. And she loves him for it. In universe, it's so appropriate it even makes Agatha shed a tear.
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