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Re:How we lost communication to entertainment by anigbrowl on Saturday December 27, 2025 @08:40PM (#46407550)
One reason I enjoy anime as much as I do is because most of these stories are written by a single person with maybe an assistant or two and an editor, they're not designed by committee.

I somewhat enjoy Stranger Things but it's falling into the space where I can write the next line of dialog in my head for whole scenes. Whereas it started out poking fun at tropes like doing exposition or relationship development at moments of maximum danger it's turned into a long sequence of Obligatory Scenes that feel increasingly forced.

Re:How we lost communication to entertainment by JKCalhoun on Sunday December 28, 2025 @09:58AM (#46411510)
> a long sequence of Obligatory Scenes that feel increasingly forced

You're describing mainstream entertainment in general. I started noticing this with the storyboard-as-film, action-by-numbers "Raider's of the Lost Ark". (I won't even waste my time on super hero films.)