Cool about your niece! I'm going to have a new niece next week! Babies everywhere!
Yeah, I loved the previous seasons of Sherlock. But *shrug*, I mean, it doesn't help that AGAIN, I know enough about Sherlock canon to know that S4 contains a death... so, maybe I'm avoiding it for that reason? If I am, it's subconscious. I'm sure I'll watch it eventually though, I really like watching Martin Freeman act. (That being said, as much as I like Martin Freeman, I couldn't bring myself to watch the last Hobbit movie either... again, tragedy).
I figure I've come this far with SPN, might as well see it through to the end. ;)
The older I get, the more I think, I don't really need to put myself through a cancer movie/war movie/anything where a child dies. Those are real and devastating experiences that I feel empathy for in reality...but I don't get any catharsis or emotional payoff out of watching them unfold in fiction.
Yes, I've been thinking about this a lot recently. Because when I was a teen, I DID read and watch a fair number of tragedies... I mean, my two favourite books from that era are tragedies or tragedy-esque, and they're still my favourite books... but would I pick them off the shelf today knowing their endings? I'm not sure I would.
And I think it comes down to what you say... when we're young, if we're lucky, we don't have any experience with real-life pain and tragedy, so reading about it and exploring the feelings it conjures in fiction is fascinating and enthralling for us... as we get older, and our world expands, and (hopefully) our empathy expands too... we don't need to reach into fiction to find tragedy, and more than that, the tragedies we read about are WORSE than fiction, because they are real. Whether they happen in our immediate families, our communities, our countries, or halfway around the world, we're exposed almost against our will to countless tragedies... to the point where when we want to lose ourselves in a fictional world, it's the lure of what we CAN'T get in our lives that entices us...adventure, wit, romance, hope, uplifting things... those are the sorts of things I gravitate towards.
Will dystopian fiction be as popular now that we're living in one? I doubt it. But I could be wrong.
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Date: 2017-01-13 02:14 am (UTC)Yeah, I loved the previous seasons of Sherlock. But *shrug*, I mean, it doesn't help that AGAIN, I know enough about Sherlock canon to know that S4 contains a death... so, maybe I'm avoiding it for that reason? If I am, it's subconscious. I'm sure I'll watch it eventually though, I really like watching Martin Freeman act. (That being said, as much as I like Martin Freeman, I couldn't bring myself to watch the last Hobbit movie either... again, tragedy).
I figure I've come this far with SPN, might as well see it through to the end. ;)
The older I get, the more I think, I don't really need to put myself through a cancer movie/war movie/anything where a child dies. Those are real and devastating experiences that I feel empathy for in reality...but I don't get any catharsis or emotional payoff out of watching them unfold in fiction.
Yes, I've been thinking about this a lot recently. Because when I was a teen, I DID read and watch a fair number of tragedies... I mean, my two favourite books from that era are tragedies or tragedy-esque, and they're still my favourite books... but would I pick them off the shelf today knowing their endings? I'm not sure I would.
And I think it comes down to what you say... when we're young, if we're lucky, we don't have any experience with real-life pain and tragedy, so reading about it and exploring the feelings it conjures in fiction is fascinating and enthralling for us... as we get older, and our world expands, and (hopefully) our empathy expands too... we don't need to reach into fiction to find tragedy, and more than that, the tragedies we read about are WORSE than fiction, because they are real. Whether they happen in our immediate families, our communities, our countries, or halfway around the world, we're exposed almost against our will to countless tragedies... to the point where when we want to lose ourselves in a fictional world, it's the lure of what we CAN'T get in our lives that entices us...adventure, wit, romance, hope, uplifting things... those are the sorts of things I gravitate towards.
Will dystopian fiction be as popular now that we're living in one? I doubt it. But I could be wrong.
Anyway, yeah, thoughts and junk.