Several people had recommended that I watch Mythic Quest.
They thought I would like it based on the fact that I could stomach it’s always sunny in Philadelphia.
I watched the first three episodes and I hate every single character.
Every single person in that show is selfish, narcissistic, stuck up, or just straight up evil. They don’t listen to each other. They don’t interact with each other. And the plot of every episode so far is “a group of terrible people interact with each other”.
I regret having watched three episodes of Mythic Quest.
I’m astounded that people like watching shows where you hate every character. It doesn’t mean you get to laugh at dumb people around you, it means you’re normalizing being the worst human you possibly can be. These shows are making people worse human beings.
They’re fictional shows. I like the characters because I know it’s fake and think their dumb interactions are funny. How are these making people worse? Is this like violence in video games causing school shootings?
On archer, the worst characters were the best ones. Archer, Krieger, Cheryl and malory were amazing. Lana was only funny when she was pissed. I loved that they often like blew away the bad guys with how fucked up they are.
And the bouncing Straight Man act plays into Archer, each individual character has periods of rationality that you can judge their insanity against.
It’s one thing when you have a show where everybody goes off of the rails all of the time always, and another where each person is generally reasonable and sane, but then they get thrust into wild situations that cause them to lose their grip on their normal self-control.
I had to give up on Mythic Quest because I was just too angry at all of the characters.
As a group they should have never made it that far. Every single character from the start of the show is trying to crash and burn as hard as they possibly can, all of the time, always, pathologically incapable of self-reflection or at taking input from the other people that obviously care about them and want the group as a whole to succeed.
Nah it’s that people look up to celebrities and their actions. People know video games are fake, but there are plenty of documented cases of people not understanding tv shows are. In my case I’ve watched people change visibly from watching shows like how I met your mother. That’s anecdotal, but the studies around psychiatric disorders for people thinking characters in shows are real aren’t.
People that can’t tell when an obviously fake show is fake are idiots. Who changes their views on life from watching HIMYM? Yea, Barney is a misogynistic turd, but he often gets what’s coming to him and has many redemption arcs throughout the series. The whole point of the show is a man who found love, while also showing tight relationships, both friendship and love, throughout. There’s regret , sadness, and happiness. Anyone that cherry picks and is influenced the bad stuff are people already like.
Every not childrens story whether in books or visual media has an antagonist. Siding with them is telling of the person who does so.
Yeah and it turns out most of the population are idiots so you’re only proving my point.
Lots of changes in behavior are subtle, unconscious things. Think about people saying new words just from watching their favorite actor. It’s human nature to do this. Has nothing to do with it being fake or not.
This is the same argument as “video games make kids violent”.
These shows don’t normalize the behavior at all
Nobody idolizes video game characters. People absolutely idolize characters like Barney.
It’s a completely different argument, one is real people acting in real ways in realistic situations. The other is none of those things.