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21 April 2017 20:57Sometimes I want stories with no conflict.
Only sometimes. And preferably not in the written format. What I consider boring to read and what I consider enjoyable to watch is frequently one and the same. Fluff and smut, among other stuff. Of course there's some written smut I enjoy and some written fluff I enjoy, but I'd enjoy those stories even more if I could watch them happening. If there were people (or pretty landscapes, or whatever) instead of letters. Maybe an offscreen narrator would enhance the experience.
And so I can't relate to people complaining about "filler episodes", though were those "filler chapters" I'd probably agree.
(And yet - Soap Ballet's gonna have a lot of stuff that hypothetical future readers might regard as a filler. Blah-blah-blah, I contain multitudes.)
And then there's a different kind of a conflict-less story - pure spiteful wish-fulfillment, fuck-the-high-stakes: Character(s) I Don't Like plot(s) against Character(s) I Like, but get(s) caught in own convoluted cobweb without even realising it for a long, long time; meanwhile, Character(s) I Like have no idea they are allegedly in any danger. Sometimes what I want is not "underdogs fighting against the impossible odds and winning" - sometimes what I want is Goliath defeating himself. Underdogs can't afford a break in real life - but they sure can in fiction.
(Bad storytelling, you say? I don't fucking care.)
Basically, when I say I want it "sometimes", what I mean is "right now", I guess.
Tomorrow there'll be a doll spam. Probably. If nothing interferes.
Only sometimes. And preferably not in the written format. What I consider boring to read and what I consider enjoyable to watch is frequently one and the same. Fluff and smut, among other stuff. Of course there's some written smut I enjoy and some written fluff I enjoy, but I'd enjoy those stories even more if I could watch them happening. If there were people (or pretty landscapes, or whatever) instead of letters. Maybe an offscreen narrator would enhance the experience.
And so I can't relate to people complaining about "filler episodes", though were those "filler chapters" I'd probably agree.
(And yet - Soap Ballet's gonna have a lot of stuff that hypothetical future readers might regard as a filler. Blah-blah-blah, I contain multitudes.)
And then there's a different kind of a conflict-less story - pure spiteful wish-fulfillment, fuck-the-high-stakes: Character(s) I Don't Like plot(s) against Character(s) I Like, but get(s) caught in own convoluted cobweb without even realising it for a long, long time; meanwhile, Character(s) I Like have no idea they are allegedly in any danger. Sometimes what I want is not "underdogs fighting against the impossible odds and winning" - sometimes what I want is Goliath defeating himself. Underdogs can't afford a break in real life - but they sure can in fiction.
(Bad storytelling, you say? I don't fucking care.)
Basically, when I say I want it "sometimes", what I mean is "right now", I guess.
Tomorrow there'll be a doll spam. Probably. If nothing interferes.
