Now, I feel this weird desire to defend 50 Shades. ;0
Okay, I admittedly didn't do a good job of explaining myself above and hit your buttons on BB, so to clarify:
I got burned out on everything being solved by violence. Keep in mind? I read between 1990 and 2011 over 400 violent mystery/thriller/sci-fi/fantasy horror novels and have seen about that many tv shows and movies. When I watched Breaking Bad? I'd read nothing but violent books and seen mostly violent tv shows and movies. The year I watched Breaking Bad? I read Hunger Games, Storm of Swords, GWDT, Jim Butcher, watched The Wire, Feast of Crows amongst other movies and books, I can't remember but fall in the same trope. After a while I saw a pattern emerge - in all these works the problems were solved by increasingly graphic violence. The hero/heroine would take vengeance against the bad guy in a really nasty way. It got to the point in which, I felt myself physically cringe.
I needed a break. I needed something softer, something where the problems were resolved with sex, negotiation, conversation, discussion...not violence. I thought - if I don't have to read another fight scene for a very long time, I'll be a happy camper. Bring on the SEX!
I also started backing away from tv shows I've been watching. SPN, Nikita, both hit the chopping block. Game of Thrones - is still great, because it has more talking than action, which works for me, also unlike you, the sexposition doesn't bother me at all (there's a lot of it on HBO - sort of par for the course), as long as I don't have to watch too many sword fights, dismemberments, beheadings, etc...I'm happy.
So the difference I see?
GWTD and Breaking Bad are series that solve all the problems with violence or the threat of violence.
50 Shades which is a gothic mystery romance sort of like Rebecca, does it with sex and conversation and negotiation...which is softer.
10 years ago? I'd have hated this book. Actually 5 years ago, I may not have read it. Now? It's fitting an itch. While for some reason GWTD and BB make me want to run away, far, far away. So I'm basically trying to figure out why.
And I think it's relatively simple? I watched too many movies/shows and read too many books just like them. (Binging on pop culture - can have nasty side effects.)
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Date: 2012-05-01 10:04 pm (UTC)Okay, I admittedly didn't do a good job of explaining myself above and hit your buttons on BB, so to clarify:
I got burned out on everything being solved by violence. Keep in mind? I read between 1990 and 2011 over 400 violent mystery/thriller/sci-fi/fantasy horror novels and have seen about that many tv shows and movies. When I watched Breaking Bad? I'd read nothing but violent books and seen mostly violent tv shows and movies. The year I watched Breaking Bad? I read Hunger Games, Storm of Swords, GWDT, Jim Butcher, watched The Wire, Feast of Crows amongst other movies and books, I can't remember but fall in the same trope. After a while I saw a pattern emerge - in all these works the problems were solved by increasingly graphic violence. The hero/heroine would take vengeance against the bad guy in a really nasty way. It got to the point in which, I felt myself physically cringe.
I needed a break. I needed something softer, something where the problems were resolved with sex, negotiation, conversation, discussion...not violence.
I thought - if I don't have to read another fight scene for a very long time, I'll be a happy camper. Bring on the SEX!
I also started backing away from tv shows I've been watching. SPN, Nikita,
both hit the chopping block. Game of Thrones - is still great, because it has more talking than action, which works for me, also unlike you, the sexposition doesn't bother me at all (there's a lot of it on HBO - sort of par for the course), as long as I don't have to watch too many sword fights, dismemberments, beheadings, etc...I'm happy.
So the difference I see?
GWTD and Breaking Bad are series that solve all the problems with violence or the threat of violence.
50 Shades which is a gothic mystery romance sort of like Rebecca, does it with sex and conversation and negotiation...which is softer.
10 years ago? I'd have hated this book. Actually 5 years ago, I may not have read it. Now? It's fitting an itch. While for some reason GWTD and BB make me want to run away, far, far away. So I'm basically trying to figure out why.
And I think it's relatively simple? I watched too many movies/shows and read too many books just like them. (Binging on pop culture - can have nasty side effects.)