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That’s just lazy writing, akin to those cheesy horror movies where everyone has to be a complete idiot to die to the monster.

A much better story is where smart, cunning characters vie against one another. There’s eb and flow, give and take, maybe a few pivotal movements that set the characters down a path they’ll resist but ultimately succumb too. Where when they reach the end despite their best efforts looking back they made the (mostly) same choices but still failed. Early Game of Thrones was a masterpiece in this regard.

That is a good point. The simarillion was probably the first true tragedy I was wxposed to.

The peanut gallery does not like being reminded that their simplistic preferences make for poor art.

That's the most pretentious thing I've read in some time.

Some might take that as a criticism, but when it comes to the creative and performing arts I'm an unabashed elitist snob, and it's a perspective I recommend.

What kind of insecure loser you must be to have these kinds of opinions about other people's tastes in art.