>>13339973The classic midwit approach to the reading/analysis of a text is that when something is not immediately obvious, instead of trying to think of and reason out an explanation, you immediately have the kneejerk reaction that the author/writer must be in error.
You don't bother trying to analyze the characters' actions and motivations through their characterization, only by what is explicitly thrown in your face and spelled out to you. You are incapable of filling in blanks, you need everything spoonfed to you, any sort of nuance is immediately lost on you.
You have an inflated view of your own intelligence (which is very clearly middling at best), and hold yourself (wrongly) in higher esteem than the authors and writers of the fiction and media you consume. Your banal, analytical mind that is incapable of passion does not enjoy stories to vicariously achieve some sense of self-actualization, nor for emotional catharsis. To you, a story is nothing more than a puzzle. Something to be solved. When you "solve" the story, you foresee the twists, the turns, the swerves, you correctly divine the ending, in your head you have "outsmarted" the author. But then something like this happens, that you don't see coming. You get outsmarted. Except wait, that can't happen, because you can never be wrong, and you're oh so much smarter than the authors. So they must have done something wrong! It's not that you're an idiot who doesn't think or engage with the story, it's that the author is just a big dumb idiot who can't write a story!
You see this kind of pathetic, pitiful behavior run rampant on this board especially, what with everyone paranoid about being "worked". They don't want to be worked, because they think getting worked makes them stupid. So few people understand that getting worked is a good thing; ideally everyone should be getting worked. They don't understand that wrestling only works when people get worked.
Idiots like you are the death of storytelling.
