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Signal Boost: The Magicians S4 Finale Aired Five Days Ago And I'm Still Mad As Hell
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There is still so much I want to say about all of it, but my thoughts won't organize themselves sufficiently. Read
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I do, however, want to comment eventually on the less-loaded topic of bad storytelling, which was also a factor here.
But there's also this: any hack on earth can write tragedy. Devastating your audience is the easiest thing in the world.
You know what's hard? Blowing their minds with sheer joy. Shock them by giving them what they didn't even know they could want. I think I can count the times on one hand where a show managed that. To get it, you have to work for it.
I don't get--I'll never get--why anyone on earth would do the second--would manage the fucking impossible--but in the end, only care about, only take pride in, only value doing the first.
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But where Q seemed to conclude, "My life was worthwhile because of my death," Buffy's fierce belief, right from episode one, was, "My life is worthwhile because of my life." She's the girl who was supposed to be the self-sacrificing lone wolf who "has no life," who instead insisted on having friends and lovers and normal girl problems, and those loving bonds saved her over and over.
Slings and Arrows worked hard and gave me a big moment of joy.
Miyazaki movies.
Check Please! is currently labouring under a couple rookie author problems and a draggy winter hiatus, but I first fell for it when it delivered a huge moment of joy exactly where I'd been conditioned to expect a big fat serving of clichéd gay angst. Knocked my socks off, like, "You can do that? I get to have that??" "Bitty wins" has been an explicit promise from the beginning.
Thank you for talking about The Gift
I think Call of the Wild on due South brought joy.
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