aguaart replied to your post:ereborne replied to your post:but like i dont want...
But if there is no sympathy, sadness, or some fear…it won’t be much of a show. And there has been a recent demand on horror and dark TV shows
oh yeah, there has to be sad - it just has to be tempered with happy
one of the central themes to southern gothic (which is a genre i adore and would like to blend into science fiction even if they tend to be kind of exclusive by virtue of setting) is that of the grotesque, of monsters that are twisted from what we consider standard. theres also heavy emphasis on ritual and magic and dark things like that
but the important distinction comes with: we killed the monster, do we feel a) glad this one is gone and we no longer have to deal with it, or b) despair in that we have only killed one monster of many, and weve still got our work cut out for us
to much of the latter leads to a boring show where everything is in a constant state of escalation and theres no time to be happy because suzy down the hall finally had her baby (because the framework of the show says "pity suzy's baby because it came into this terrible world" not "be happy suzy had a baby look at that miracle of life right there")