Irony poisoning at work. Nothing has meaning anymore. Nothing can be treated with serious gravitas, unless it's related to the leftist writers' political views about the Current Thing. Everything needs to be funny, quirky, sarcastic, bitter, and/or overriden with modern slang and profanity.

I suppose this is what we get after mocking the "I should have been the one to fill your dark soul with LIIIGGG-IIIGGGHHHTTT!" scene for 20 years.