Post by ReyKahuka on Feb 20, 2019 14:31:41 GMT
It was extremely obvious in the trailers, don't you think? That doesn't give her a proper backstory or make her character any more compelling. A meteor landing on Bruce Willis would've made more narrative sense.
They aren't deconstructing tropes, they're taking left turns for the sake of shock value. There isn't anything interesting about that plot twist, it doesn't make the story better. Telling the audience they wasted their time investing in this story or its characters defeats the purpose of telling the story in the first place.
Narrative non-sequiturs are the lazy writer's way out. The only thing worse than a cliché is the writer saying, "This happened just because." It doesn't mean anything, there's no purpose, no value to having followed the story. It's just there.
"This just in: All eyes were on downtown today as BRICK WALL. Back to you, Jim."
And I covered that in my initial post. Learn the definition of non-sequitur. If you're going to play the role of pseudointellectual defending lazy writing, you should at least know what you're talking about.
Cheers.