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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Umbran" data-source="post: 1964809" data-attributes="member: 177">I think, in general, in this regard I practice what I preach, so I'm not terribly frightened of your wrath <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f642.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":)" title="Smile    :)"  data-smilie="1"data-shortname=":)" />  Note that I didn't ask for volumes, just some reasons behind your opinions.  A couple fo sentences would've done the trick.A mood piece, where every example sets essentially the same mood?  Why make a series instead of a movie, then?  While I liked the X-Files a lot, the monotony tended to wear a bit.Actually, I could, especially in the cases of Brent Spiner and Patrick Stewart.  Believeable?  From a morality play?  Go back and take a look at some of the archetypal original Greek morality plays - they are where we get the term deus ex machina.  Believeability isn't a part of the genre.  Neither is subtlety, really.  Morality plays generally wind up as moral sledgehammers.  If they're too subtle, the audience may not twig to the point the play is trying to make.  Doubly so when you've only got 40 minutes of screen time to make your case.Relevance is, of course, subjective.  What seems irrelevant to you may be the center of my existance.  The most recent example - Enterprise's vulcan story arc - was pretty darned relevant to some real-world politics.See the point on subtlety, above.  Morality plays are not supposed to have the most complicated of characters, because they'd get in the way of the play.  Considering the volumes of philosophy that have been produced over the centuries, I find the requirement that modern morality plays be original to be unrealistic.  It's downright contraditctory to your wish that they be relevant!  Truely new stuff would by definition be unrelated to our lives, and thus irrelevant to us.And it isn't like The X-Files were original at the least.  They traded upon conspiracy theory and urban legend - all old stories.   Yeah, well, that particular tidbit would quickly get far too close to politics and/or religion, so I'll let it be.</blockquote>

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