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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 9661969" data-attributes="member: 4937">I now know you've never driven a big rig.  Just because something is ordinary doesn't mean it isn't heroic.  That they are "doing what needs to be done" is a heck an endorsement, especially when it's something dangerous.Saying someone is "not getting something" is a really lazy way to say you think your preferences are better than mine.  And who knows, maybe I should like Rebels.  But I do know this.  I know how to write.  When writing is wrong, I'm not saying "It wasn't to my my taste".  I'm saying that it's objectively failing tests of nuance, subtlety, clarity, and consistency.  I know why it is wrong, and I can suggest ways to fix it (since there are many ways to fix a piece of writing, my particular way would be an opinion).  In a children's show like Rebels, you can afford to be one dimensional and do lots of telling rather than showing and disrespect your audience's ability to understand things, because you are writing for kids.  And so you can have monologues where people just say the most obvious things and talk about adult issues like they were asking a 5th grader to be their friend on the playground, and it's OK.  Although, I will say that "Avatar the Last Airbender" managed to write for children while still maintaining an impressive level of writing quality, so it's not a necessity that a children's show dumb down things.Anyway, my point is that "not getting something" isn't really a thing in this case, because if there really was something I wasn't getting on the level of not getting the punch line to a joke or the clues to a murder mystery, you could explain it to me and I'd go, "Yeah I should have seen that", but you can't do that in this case because my lack of understanding isn't the issue.</blockquote>

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