Characters in contemporary pop storytelling seem to be getting less real and more archetypal. As in, they embody an idea (eg. Rick Sanchez = nihilist god) rather than an individual coherent person who is just interesting (eg. Cosmo Kramer).
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Is that because of the characters... or because you've built up a library of ideas that allows you to slot everybody into archetypes?
i.e. it's you that's changed.
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This is not true of just the last 20 years. It is the nature of fictional characters throughout history. And I could even argue that Kramer is an archetype. Someone like him could not really step out of the screen and live in real life.
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