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All of those things can also be totally valid parts of a well-told story. Not only that, any historically significant factual account of human beings is likely
by obviouslygreen 14y ago
All of those things can also be totally valid parts of a well-told story. Not only that, any historically significant factual account of human beings is likely to contain at least one and probably more of those things.
Yes, only using those things, or using them to prop up otherwise poor writing, is most certainly a crutch. But generalizing that too far takes very significant parts of our nature and behavior -- for better or worse -- and casts them in an artificially negative light as invalid literary mechanics.
- pfg 14y agoTotally agree. This is what I keep telling people whenever they moan about Game Of Thrones/A Song Of Ice And Fire being porn and/or too violent.
- michaelochurch 14y agoExcellent point. Those books also get into a lot of detail about medieval food and clothing. He's just very detailed and realistic. (I almost think of IaF as magical realism, not fantasy.)
- Snoptic 14y agoThe TV show does have meaningless porn dumped on top to keep the audience interested. That is HBO's trademark.