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<blockquote data-quote="EzekielRaiden" data-source="post: 9296143" data-attributes="member: 6790260"><p>These days, folks will latch onto anything to prove that the inexorable decline of grimdark isn't happening.</p><p></p><p>It's almost like people are tired of worlds where everyone and everything sucks, everyone is miserable and suffering, and nothing ever gets better or even changes all that much.</p><p></p><p>We suffered under the yoke of enforced positivity, squeaky-clean worlds, and absolute denial that anything more deviant than tousled hair could ever exist for several decades. Now we've suffered under the yoke of <em>self-enforced</em> negativity, black-and-black morality, and absolute denial that a shred of dignity or virtue exists in the human soul that isn't a pretense for filling some base and petty desire.</p><p></p><p>I have high hopes that we will now finally start to see an era of <em>nuance.</em> Where some heroes are just heroes and some heroes are flawed and some heroes are hypocrites. Where the world has stuff that sucks and stuff that is awesome and stuff that we don't even really know what to think about.</p><p></p><p>A world where everything has its brightness turned up to 11 and no shadows are allowed to exist is flat and boring. Unfortunately, a lot of creators (and far too many audience members) have decided that that means a world with the brightness turned <em>off</em> and no <em>lights</em> are allowed to exist must be the best thing ever, but all it does is create a different kind of flat and boring.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="EzekielRaiden, post: 9296143, member: 6790260"] These days, folks will latch onto anything to prove that the inexorable decline of grimdark isn't happening. It's almost like people are tired of worlds where everyone and everything sucks, everyone is miserable and suffering, and nothing ever gets better or even changes all that much. We suffered under the yoke of enforced positivity, squeaky-clean worlds, and absolute denial that anything more deviant than tousled hair could ever exist for several decades. Now we've suffered under the yoke of [I]self-enforced[/I] negativity, black-and-black morality, and absolute denial that a shred of dignity or virtue exists in the human soul that isn't a pretense for filling some base and petty desire. I have high hopes that we will now finally start to see an era of [I]nuance.[/I] Where some heroes are just heroes and some heroes are flawed and some heroes are hypocrites. Where the world has stuff that sucks and stuff that is awesome and stuff that we don't even really know what to think about. A world where everything has its brightness turned up to 11 and no shadows are allowed to exist is flat and boring. Unfortunately, a lot of creators (and far too many audience members) have decided that that means a world with the brightness turned [I]off[/I] and no [I]lights[/I] are allowed to exist must be the best thing ever, but all it does is create a different kind of flat and boring. [/QUOTE]
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