This was sitting in my drafts folder because too many cooks and all that. But whatever.
From the ouside, the journey of the LDR fan seems to have some parallels to that of the Star Wars fan. There’s the heady days of last Summer; “Video Games” must have felt like seeing the original trilogy. “This cultural thing gets me. I’m going to talk about it with my friends…a lot. I’m going to defend it against people who don’t get it.” Then comes the prequels (SNL) and the prequels are obviously bad. They last forever. That one friend you brought to the midnight screening is like, “whuuuut? is? this?” The trade embargo (or whatever) plotline is awful and the dialogue is so stilted you start to wonder, “was the original stuff bad, but just arrived at the right time?”
But I have good news, LDR fans who may be feeling aesthetic stress. Take a cue from the Star Wars fan; remeber it doesn’t matter. Star Wars has terrible dialogue and a host of other problems and I love it. I even think the prequels have good things to be said about them like the new John Williams music and the last lightsaber battle between Anakin and Obi-Wan Kenobi. Though, I will say, even as a person who wouldn’t listen to LDR with your mom’s ears, the misogyny is either too predictable to be disappointing or disappointingly predictable.
