Talk:Planetary Dystopia Creation/@comment-4867780-20170306053121/@comment-4867780-20170306115554

Sounds like it has enough assets to work, though my drama-tolerance is way too low ^ ^; If an entertainment ends up making you sad instead of happy, then I can't help feeling it kinda missed the point. Though I suppose "entertainment" is a broad concept, that encompasses any kind of stimulation capable of drawing and retaining the interest of an audience, so you end up with many twisted/heart-wrenching shows that still boast a logic-defying popularity.

I don't mind bleakness in a setting, after all heroes need a world to better, with innocents to save and villains to punish. What I really don't like is how many shows insist on messing up the life of said heroes for "exciting" drama and narrative dynamic. They are supposed to be living examples and generally make things better, not to be poisoned and dragged down by the setting's bleakness. Otherwise what's the point of such a story ? To teach us that reality sucks ? We already got the memo, that's why we're watching fiction in in the first place ^ ^;

Nah, I'm overthinking again. Entertainment is a business like any other, it's meant to distract us from our daily problems and generate as much profits as possible, not actually achieve or teach anything to anyone. If I get it right, that's the role of this rather nebulous thing we call "culture", that is ultimately lagging far behind XD