Ami Angelwings4d ago

#QuestionOfTheDay what's a work that started off doing something that's not actually what the work is about or turned out to be but that you wish it had stuck with?

to give examples of what I mean: the anime Street Fighter 2 V started as a travelogue of Ken and Ryu touring different countries to learn different cultures and fighting styles before very quickly becoming Street Fighter 2 and inevitably having M. Bison take over the narrative and be about fighting him and I wish they had stuck with being a travelogue

Another I've heard are ppl who wish the bait and switch of S1 Babylon 5 didn't happen & it stayed as a goofy Trek episode of the week knockoff instead of LotR in space

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@ami_angelwings Graydon Saunders' Commonweal, the first book is about a society banding together and trying to avoid being ruled by wizard kings like everyone else in the post apocalyptic world and how even the wizards who agree with them are massive inhuman weirdos. So of course the second and third is all about a wizard school and how actually wizards are so cool and better than you. Supposedly the 4th and on go back a bit, but my goodwill was spent at that point.

But will also just generally when a monster of the week show goes all in on metaplot/everything is connected/world ending threats, it almost always looses what made it interesting.

Jul 10 at 6:32amWeb