I’ve never watched that show, and probably never will just because everyone on reddit logo is always like soypoint-1 LE SUNNY IN PHILADELPHIA? EPIC WIN, LET’S POST OUR FAVORITE QUOTES! soypoint-2

  • aaaaaaadjsf [he/him, comrade/them]@hexbear.netEnglish
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    1 year ago

    There is a tendancy amongst a surprisingly high amount of people to read “protagonist” as “good guy who should be emulated”.

    This whole phenomenon has really been killing shows over the last decade. Even the big bang theory was passable before they turned the protagonists into good guys the audience is supposed to empathise with.

    • UlyssesT [he/him]@hexbear.netEnglish
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      1 year ago

      Contemporary writers should (but probably won’t, or at least won’t care either way because they get paid) realize that if they give a character cool quotable lines, lots of screen time, and present them with agency in the story, that they’re going to have consumers quoting them, admiring them, and in many cases even imitating them no matter the writer’s supposed intentions. the-more-you-know