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Message: <blockquote data-quote="barsoomcore" data-source="post: 1291058" data-attributes="member: 812">If you believe that an audience gains the greatest value from their story-attending experience through the unthinking acceptance of the story's telling, then yes, you are inextricably drawn to that conclusion.My point above was that unthinking acceptance of mediocre art does NOT give us the greatest value from any artistic experience. Greatest value comes from the simultaneous engagement of disbelief and objectivity. Great stories allow both to operate at full capacity. Mediocre stories require us to "slow down" one or the other.Knowing that the good guy is going to win is not at all the same thing as knowing that, in The Sixth Sense, [spoiler]Bruce Willis is dead.[/spoiler] That fact is part of how it all unfolds. Certainly not something that happens 95% of the time.Once again, if you wish to display condescension, you will be much more convincing if you demonstrate superiority first. You suggest that your method of enjoying stories is better than mine -- is your best argument that "the rest of the world" uses your method? Sorry, unconvinced.</blockquote>