the actual reason I consume mediocre media is because I have bad taste. the deeper secret pretentious reason is because I think thereās something very revealing about bad media that you donāt get with good media. when you watch a poorly executed plot point unfold, you see the machinery behind it. you see the gap between whatās actually on screen and the true goal the author is striving for. if itās particularly awful, you can even measure just how poorly mismatched the authorās skills are with the story theyāre trying to tell you. watching a poorly executed narrative play out feels like youāre discovering something, because you see all the wiring and guts underneath that better authors hide from you, in the same way that movies hide boom mics and books make you forget youāre turning the pages. if a story is good and executed well you just see the story. but I want to see the guts and wires!
also I like complaining a lot
