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DonQuigleone · 2011-08-19, 19:38

Tropes exist because they work. No one complains about the fact Macbeth dies at the end of Macbeth being predictable, it's a tragedy. That's what tragedies are all about.

In fact if you go back all the way to Greek Drama, it did a fair amount of pandering as well. Greek Drama was written quite strictly to formula, and works that deviated too far were considered terrible. Invariably the playwright has to give the audience something they want, or else the audience isn't going to want to see it. Shakespeare, for all his acclaim, always gave the audience what they wanted and never wrote a thing with a particularly original plot.

I'll echo Flower's remarks about Atonal music, sure it's original, it also doesn't sound like music.

Authors who are too obsessed with originality often end out committing the sin of looking down on their audience. Audiences are usually better then you think at sussing out what is good, and what isn't.

For instance, if you compare Rotten Tomatoes to "popular opinion"(EG IMDB) there is only rarely a large dissagreement about the quality of something.

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DonQuigleone Knight Errant Join Date: Dec 2007 Location: Dublin, Ireland Age: 35	Tropes exist because they work. No one complains about the fact Macbeth dies at the end of Macbeth being predictable, it's a tragedy. That's what tragedies are all about. In fact if you go back all the way to Greek Drama, it did a fair amount of pandering as well. Greek Drama was written quite strictly to formula, and works that deviated too far were considered terrible. Invariably the playwright has to give the audience something they want, or else the audience isn't going to want to see it. Shakespeare, for all his acclaim, always gave the audience what they wanted and never wrote a thing with a particularly original plot. I'll echo Flower's remarks about Atonal music, sure it's original, it also doesn't sound like music. Authors who are too obsessed with originality often end out committing the sin of looking down on their audience. Audiences are usually better then you think at sussing out what is good, and what isn't. For instance, if you compare Rotten Tomatoes to "popular opinion"(EG IMDB) there is only rarely a large dissagreement about the quality of something.