u/BadgemanBrown

This is apparently a common opinion on most of reddit.

It just feels so anachronistic.

One of those facts that messes with your perception of time. Like the Ottoman Empire still existing when the Chicago Cubs won the World Series.

Shame that Mission Hill has been off the airwaves for so long. I still think of it as an iconic AS show. So underrated. Still fresh today and such a unique artstyle.

Even though it’s still a Warner property, I’m pretty sure Adult Swim’s syndication deal is long expired (and they’d have to pay for licensing), so it will probably never be on TV again. 😭

Anyway…

Are there any other classic AS staples you wish would make a long awaited return to the schedule?

“Home Movies” was that show for me during the ‘10s (it never aired more than a few episodes between 2010 and 2018). But fortunately it’s stayed back on semi-regular rotation in the ‘20s.

Seems like everything skews more SFF, Romance, YA, etc.

Which is totally fine, but not my bag at all.

I see constant talk about world-building and lore and market trends and basically nothing about form, style, or other mechanics of writing.

More than that, I see people on writing subs admit to hardly doing much reading at all, which astounds me!

The recent thread where commenters dogpiled on an excerpt from Ian McEwan’s Atonement for having bad prose was crazy to me. If THAT’S considered overly flowery, I’d hate to see what those commenters think about modernist authors like Proust or Woolf.

I can’t be alone here. Is there anyone else who feels kind of alienated by the prevailing dogma here?

Which is totally fine, but not my bag at all.

I see constant talk about world-building and lore and market trends and basically nothing about form, style, or other mechanics of writing.

More than that, I see people on these writing subs admit to hardly doing much reading at all, which astounds me!

The recent thread where commenters dogpiled on an excerpt from Ian McEwan’s Atonement for having bad prose was crazy to me. If THAT’S considered overly flowery, I’d hate to see what this sub thought about modernist authors like Proust or Woolf from a century ago.

I can’t be alone here. Is there anyone else who feels kind of alienated by the prevailing dogma here?

Just saw a post from r/writers pop up on my feed in which someone posted a quote from Ian McEwan’s “Atonement” as an example of inspiring prose. And then nearly everyone in the comments responded with “too flowery”, “boring”, and offered up SciFi + romantasy series as alternative examples of good writing.

The Redditor obsession with mediocre SciFi/Fantasy + Booktok fare (and open disdain for anything literary and classics) never fails to astound me.

Same people who watch nothing but capeshit and IP slop Hollywood movies and are still mad about what Martin Scorsese said like 7 years ago.

A sort of inverted snobbery.

Ever since this MJ biopic came out, these freaks come out in full force in comment sections proclaiming that he was actually super normal guy and that anyone who thinks otherwise is jealous/racist.

For the record, I some of his music (Off the Wall was the peak), but I subscribe to the Norm MacDonald view on the matter, as I thought most people did.