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devilsskettle · 2 years ago

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i’ve started to really dislike stories where the stakes are really expansive. ofc a story needs stakes but i think i’m really over “saving the world” stakes, i’m not interested in global or universal consequences. i’m only interested in stories that remain at the personal and interpersonal levels (whether those stakes are really high — life or death; or really low — whether or not a character can wake up the next day and feel okay about themselves, whether or not two characters can maintain a relationship)

#this isn’t necessarily an indictment on stories where the whole world is at stake #but i do think it makes it harder for audiences to suspend their disbelief and easier to write overpowered characters accidentally #or have to pull a deus ex machina or some other contrived solution #and depending on the length of the story lead to villain decay and jumping the shark (like stranger things. for example)#ofc it’s a convention of certain genres but even then it’s like…. well idk #do you need to save The Galaxy can’t you just save new york or whatever like spiderman

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