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Message: <blockquote data-quote="LightPhoenix" data-source="post: 1285423" data-attributes="member: 115">Well, my response would be not to see anything by the writer. I'll address more below. Apples and oranges. Writing produces an intangible benefit - satisfaction. Programming produces something very tangible - a program. Oh, definitely. There are huge degrees of success, and in reality there are even different ways to succeed that are equally valid, if not always equaly moral. If a movie loses the interest of anyone seeing it (a la Gigli, for a modern example), then yes, I would agree it's the writer's fault. However, if it's only one or two people out of an audience, then I don't really think there is a fault, and that's basically the core of my argument. Sometimes things just don't work for some people. A good example would be music. Britney Spears is hugely successful, by almost any definition of the word. I think her music sucks; I think it's boring, predictable, and regurgitated music industry pop-crap. Lots of other people feel very different. Though I'd give my left eye to teach the world how bland and over-used a I-IV-V-I (or VI) progression is. Is that her, or more adequately, her songwriter's fault? No. Is it mine? Definitely not. The same thing applies to movies - sometimes things just don't work for people. Obviously The Usual Suspects didn't work for you, because you figured it out, and that's fine. But it's not the writer's fault. I agree with all of this. I like to compose music, though I haven't since I went to the university three years ago. Same boat - sometimes you suck, and all you can do is learn from it. Now... dark, milk, or white? <img src="https://cdn.jsdelivr.net/joypixels/assets/8.0/png/unicode/64/1f61b.png" class="smilie smilie--emoji" loading="lazy" width="64" height="64" alt=":p" title="Stick out tongue    :p"  data-smilie="7"data-shortname=":p" /> As an aside... I'm sorry my first two posts came off as a little antagonistic.   Oh, and Merry X-Mas!!!</blockquote>

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