I've been having some problems with a lot of media for the same reasons too. There's been a lot of "where's the plot ...?" with a lot of TV and movies lately.
Character study is fine - great, really - but a story needs actual direction as well...needs some long-range, plot-driven ongoing tensions in order to create long-term investments in the story...and the characters.
One of the reasons I'm beginning to lose interest in shows like for example - True Blood - is that it's all shock value and things happening - but no real long-term, compelling plot situation that's actually going somewhere.
It's like there's been this vital loss of how to tell a cohesive, beginning-middle-and-end, plot-driven story.
As for movies - god, everything lately is a sequel or the continuation of an ongoing story where things happen, but nothing really does...
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I've been having some problems with a lot of media for the same reasons too.
There's been a lot of "where's the plot ...?" with a lot of TV and movies lately.
Character study is fine - great, really - but a story needs actual direction as well...needs some long-range, plot-driven ongoing tensions in order to create long-term investments in the story...and the characters.
One of the reasons I'm beginning to lose interest in shows like for example - True Blood - is that it's all shock value and things happening - but no real long-term, compelling plot situation that's actually going somewhere.
It's like there's been this vital loss of how to tell a cohesive, beginning-middle-and-end, plot-driven story.
As for movies - god, everything lately is a sequel or the continuation of an ongoing story where things happen, but nothing really does...
Yeah...not liking this trend.