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@thatonespecter Well I suppose. Where is this going?
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@abigpony =( I can take them seriously, I'm just able to realize they're practically an entirely separate entity from the actual tv show and can regard it as such.
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@abigpony I think there's a typo.. http://idioms.thefreedictionary.com/take+in+stride
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@egnaroesroh i agree
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@abigpony I think it's pretty clever. As far as my nose goes... http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uVmdTf7Vcxc
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@abigpony It's not a matter of whether it's extreme or not, it's a matter of how well they're able to convey it. I don't know what genre's you like, but making everything not an extreme would make things a bit bland. For example: If you were to make a sad story, you can do it poorly by not giving any emotional buildup and making the characters not worth caring about so that we could care less when the sad moment/moments happen. However, give them characterization and story and you just might make people care what happens to them (maybe not cry, but you should still be able to relate or feel something) Now let's say you wanted to make this sad story not an extreme. It's reasonably harder to garner emotion from a story about failing a test, compared to losing a friend (It's very possible though, which proves it doesn't matter how extreme or not) This being the case, if there were only one genre for middle ground, it'd be like having the emotional range of a robot.
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@thatonespecter The question at that point would probably be why do you read stories then?
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@thatonespecter So that I'm on the same page, what does emotionally crippled mean?
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@thatonespecter If they're robot people and emotionless, then there's no point to reading the story other than possibly grasp the language better or maybe to apply some part of the story to your life, though it's often hard to relate to something when you can't do so on an emotional level and have to rely on cold hard facts. I believe one of a story's goals is to provide some form of entertainment through one emotion or something similar, but not an emotion per se (ex: Sense of adventure) which makes reading a story seem somewhat pointless if they're robot-like.
