I remember watching a YouTube episode where they talked about life experiences of writers of the past (like Tolkien fighting in WW1) and how the writers hired today seem to have all been hired straight out of college and of course they all have the same views on life
I didn't come up with the idea, and I've been meaning to make a detailed post on it, but that's basically what I've been convinced was the problem with fiction for a while. The context I first saw it mentioned was comics and Manga. The creators entire life experience is such:
play vidya and read comics/manga
make friends who do the exact same thing
learn to draw/write in middle school
go to expensive art high-school
do literally nothing but make art and play vidya with other unbalanced art freaks
go to CalArts or similar to unlearn your craft
make 0 friends outside classes
get a referral to C tier studio copying the A tiers
make derivative art in the 1 style and subject matter you've taken the time to learn (because it was handed to you): GloboHomo
At no point did you grow or learn as a person. You are the personality handed to you by your helicopter parents at 12. You have nothing to say, so you say nothing in your works.
Yeah Mary Sues are a female power/competence fantasy and pander. Making a male Mary Sue makes no sense because men don't fantasize about being "good at things" because we know anyone who puts in the work can do it. Women just see it as magic.
Writer's room was majority female.
Main character is a Mary Sue.
Every time.
I remember watching a YouTube episode where they talked about life experiences of writers of the past (like Tolkien fighting in WW1) and how the writers hired today seem to have all been hired straight out of college and of course they all have the same views on life
I didn't come up with the idea, and I've been meaning to make a detailed post on it, but that's basically what I've been convinced was the problem with fiction for a while. The context I first saw it mentioned was comics and Manga. The creators entire life experience is such:
At no point did you grow or learn as a person. You are the personality handed to you by your helicopter parents at 12. You have nothing to say, so you say nothing in your works.
I’d still say Tolkien and GRRM are better writers than the modern day writers like the ones for this show
Of course they were (neither of them is an active writer now).
Yeah Mary Sues are a female power/competence fantasy and pander. Making a male Mary Sue makes no sense because men don't fantasize about being "good at things" because we know anyone who puts in the work can do it. Women just see it as magic.