"That contrast is where the power comes from. You get unpredictability without existential risk. You get chaos that’s bounded. The play might fail or succeed, but the system itself is stable. There’s a beginning and an end. The whistle will blow. The next play will come.
I think that mirrors how a lot of people want to experience the world more generally."
https://www.vox.com/podcasts/476277/football-nfl-college-playoffs-klosterman-book-tv
@stefan I think this is a lot of the appeal of fiction as well! That’s why people get upset when a story element doesn’t make sense, isn’t brought up again, or is hard to understand; they are looking for this certainty and stability.
Very interesting take
@NIGHTEN Definitely!
Also interesting how cultural this is. I remember reading about differences between US and UK audiences in particular, how Americans prefer more neatly told stories.
Or even this example from the UK and US versions of The Office:
"British audiences really like taking the piss out of a out of a boor, but American audiences can't make that their lead person – they have to have some kind of emotional investment in that person. If they don’t, they're just kind of like, ‘why am I following this terrible person around?"
https://www.buzzfeed.com/hanifahrahman/the-office-us-uk-differences
