#QuestionOfTheDay what's something (a character, a theme, a plot point, a scene, etc) in a work that you enjoy which you find people (audiences/fans/critics, etc) regularly misunderstand or miss the entire point of and it bugs you? This can even include people misunderstanding authorial intent or the message of the work, etc
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#fiction #books #movies #film #TV #television #comics #comicbooks #anime #manga #videogames #ttrpg #CCGs #music #musicals
@ami_angelwings Honestly every theme in Nier Automata seems to go glossed over in favor of the fact that it's a platinum game with a sexy main character, which I'm generally pretty saddened by. It's a really thematically rich game with a lot to say about the purposelessness of conflict and perpetuating violence by being born into a system built upon it
but it's okay it's the sexy robot lady game! did you know her ass has more polygons than the entirety of ocarina of time? a tweet said so!
@pixel @ami_angelwings @xgranade there's one theme which this doesn't destroy at least, which is that Yoko Taro REALLY loves two things:
1) flowers
2) girls
anyway mine would be that people think Fahrenheit 451 is about government censorship for SOME GODDAMNED REASON rather than the descent of a society into casual cruelty and disinterest, of which the Firemen are a natural consequence.
There's an ENTIRE MONOLOGUE about this that spells it out explicitly, for fuck's sake, and yet…
@SnoopJ @pixel @ami_angelwings @xgranade Add Animal Farm to the misunderstood list.
@yon @SnoopJ @pixel @ami_angelwings @xgranade JFC the late 90s Hallmark TV movie based on it. It was changed so that Jones was just a drunken, abusive outlier and the neighboring farmers sat around in the pub tsk-tsking about how cruel he was to his livestock. And at the end, after the farm collapsed under pig rule, the owner shows up -- a telegenic, Kennedyesque young guy in a convertible playing Fats Domino, with his cute young family -- and sets things to right under human management. I was in an absolute rage by the end of it.
@KevinCarson1 @SnoopJ @pixel @ami_angelwings @xgranade I have a hard time thinking any of these books will be faithfully adapted to TV/Movies. There’s a long list of awful cases where books have been butchered.
Ironically Archer (the main character from the TV show of the same name) describes Animal Farm quite well.
