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I have not read the book or watched the show, though I want to. Should I watch first then read the book?
by JustSomeNobody 9y ago
I have not read the book or watched the show, though I want to. Should I watch first then read the book?
- philipkglass 9y agoYou should be fine watching the show first. Do you feel more satisfied with fiction when powerful villains are, by some miraculous stroke of luck, brought to justice? Or do you feel more satisfied with the logical consistency of stories where the powerful can mostly get away with crimes, because that's what power is? The latter is more like the book and noir-ish fiction in general. I also prefer the latter, perhaps because the first is just so much more common. Maybe if the standard Hollywood ending had powerful villains crushing attempts to bring them to justice I'd have an affinity for "plucky underdog triumphs against the odds" stories. But the plucky underdog pulls off an improbable win so often in popular entertainment that I'm tired of it. To believe that underdogs are actually underdogs I need to see them lose more often than they win.
- JustSomeNobody 9y ago> Do you feel more satisfied with fiction when powerful villains are, by some miraculous stroke of luck, brought to justice? Or do you feel more satisfied with the logical consistency of stories where the powerful can mostly get away with crimes, because that's what power is? Given those two choices, I prefer logic. But, I would prefer justice if it wasn't "by some miraculous stroke of luck". I'll check out the show first. I already have Netflix, but haven't bought the book yet.