• Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.ukEnglish
    43·
    22 days ago

    Here’s a medium take, most of human culture across its history has consisted of the same stories told anew. The only problem now is that the gatekeepers of our culture are moneyed interests, and the influence of shareholder interests and oligarchs means we end up watching the colour and life fade from our culture in realtime as capitalism declines.

    • FenrirIII@lemmy.world
      0·
      22 days ago

      Read “The Hero with a Thousand Faces” by Joseph Campbell. Myths repeat through cultures and influence every story that follows. We’re constantly recycling

      • Brave Little Hitachi Wand@feddit.ukEnglish
        1·
        21 days ago

        Campbell’s work is valuable and interesting, but I like it better as a lens for modern media rather than as some grand unified theory of human culture.

      • Ilixtze@lemmy.mlEnglish
        1·
        20 days ago

        Campbells work has been debunked by a lot of researchers, not only it cherry picks data; it pushed the lie that his little structure is universal while ignoring a lot of cultures and and traditional story structures that pay no attention to it. It is a very popular story structure in the mainstream west because it is very manipulative towards the audience. It is great for selling an unambiguous product. Frank Herbert hated Campbell to mention a modern author; The Dune novels have thematic elements that go against the hero’s journey on purpose.

  • lugal@lemmy.dbzer0.com
    11·
    22 days ago

    Old franchises don’t even try to explore strange new worlds anymore but rather boldly go where they have been before (sorry not sorry for the SNW season 3 spoiler)

    • lobut@lemmy.ca
      2·
      22 days ago

      I dunno, not even old franchise but even with Avatar the Last Airbender … they keep trying to retell Aang’s story when they could do so many others stories within the universe and give nods to the original. Repeatedly doing the same storyline makes it feel smaller.

  • Warl0k3@lemmy.world
    101·
    22 days ago

    Eeh, this one has potential. It’s almost all the original crew (inc. the writers and the non Joss showrunner!) getting a chance to go back and tell more stories in a project they all loved and that’s had a lasting cultural impact. There’s a difference between people passionately revisitimg a sequel, and the gutless corpse of something being draped over a generic script and set loose on the unsuspecting villagers to milk them for all they’re worth like has been happening so much with Disney and Paramount lately (fucking Starfleet Academy)