Is it just me aging or has mass entertainment gotten more and more tropey over last 2 decades? Books as much as movies/tv.
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Golden Age of TV increasingly feels like Golden Age of pitch perfect trope machines 🤔
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articulation of 'what works' + Internet makes cloning tropes easier than ever. But still bright spots remain.
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also, most people qualify media by popularity not actual quality -- ie so many bad movies/series that are mediocre but hyper-popular
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'Stranger Things' was mediocre-plus-ish story with strong dose of fun 80s Americana-nostalgia - yet rave reviews in tech circles
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There wasn't a lot to get into. See
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I am clearly missing something about Stranger Things hype. Certainly, fun 80s nostalgia & good casting but overall not awesomely radical. :(
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