Reply to thread

Message: <blockquote data-quote="Guest&nbsp; 85555" data-source="post: 8265019"><p>Old tropes are perfectly good and useable. The idea that what makes something good is evading, twisting, subverting or recasting old tropes, IMO, one of the things that bothers me about a lot of current media (don't mind have my expectations subverted, don't mind a new spin, but the old tropes still have plenty of uses, and they are old because they work). You can respect what came before and still add something new to it. But when your starting point is 'the old stuff was trash', to me it comes off as being fueled more by a chip on the shoulder than by enthusiasm (and there is plenty of room for "I don't like how this was done, so I am going to show people a new way", it is just the total rejection of anything old, dismissal of the history that bothers me)</p></blockquote><p></p>