How does this individual talk and look like didn't subvert my exceptions
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Why is "subversion" a good thing? Why is "change" a good thing (especially when it doesn't improve jack shit)?
That's the best part: it usually isn't. A change in any system usually results in either catastrophic effects, or the system becoming unrecognizable compared to its former state.
Puberty is a change. Once you go through it, you are fundamentally different than you were before it.
The Great Depression was a change. Before, things were going great, the economy was booming. After, people wiped their asses with money because it was worthless.
The fall of the Soviet Union was a change. Before, it was a repressive regime that spread evil throughout the world. After the collapse, it reverted to just being a bunch of slavic countries with lackluster economies.
Evolution is a change. Some creatures evolved to be more efficient hunters, and others evolved to be less efficient. Guess which ones died out? Hell, Pandas are really only alive right now because we think they're cute.
Then there's climate change. The dinosaurs died out because of a cataclysmic change in their climate. Not the oceans getting a bit warmer, mind you, but the sun literally being blocked out by ash.
Improving things is hard and they refuse to accept they're too mediocre to pull that off, so they just pretend changing things is the same.
Most of post-Soviet countries aren't Slavic. The only ones are Russia (mostly, but this is changing), Ukraine, Belarus.
I despise the word subversion. Ever since TLJ
Because in theory it means that it isn't predictable. Its the end goal of the Shayamalan "twist" beyond just that final moment of twisting.
Which, again in theory, can be a great thing. The hero just getting domed by a random bullet during an action scene can dramatically raise the stakes and make the whole thing a lot more tense because it subverts the plot armor we expect.
However, when they use it it means "deliberately leading you on to flip the switch after like we didn't."
At this point, the only subverting my expectations that is possible is if they actually made good content. That'd subvert my expectations real good!
Their skill level is so low, that imitation or mimickry would fall flat, and be clear it was an inferior product. Arbitrary negative changes allows them to blame their lack of talent, effort, and forethought instead on the asinine changes.
When it's done well, you get things like the A Song of Ice and Fire series of books, where the author takes the tropes of a genre and refuses to follow them. However, you then have the flip side, like the trope of actually finishing the series.