grandiddykane
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what makes something cliche? no, seriously. can someone please, in their own words, define that for me? i'm having a little trouble narrowing down its meaning myself. here's where i'm having trouble: if i'm not mistaken, isn't the air we breathe cliche? or the water we drink, as well? i'm dead serious. can't this be applied to just about anything? but that doesn't mean all things unoriginal have to be bad, now does it? for example, those things i just mentioned, air and water, are essential to our continued existence. video games and their mechanics are overused, are they not? but you still play and enjoy them, nonetheless, don't you?
i don't understand why something must be completely original in order for it to get the pass. how old are you guys, anyway? i ask because sadly, there comes a point in time where you've seen just about everything this world has to offer, and from that point forward, you're not going to be using the word original, or "a breath of fresh air," as often as you did to describe whatever piece of media it is you're consuming now compared to when you were younger.
but this isn't a bad thing. for example, when you open up a pack of pokemon cards, you're prone to drawing a couple of repeats, correct? but what if, out of all those repeats, one of those cards is a rare? doesn't that make it all worth it?
another example. what if you're favorite book met its conclusion years ago and you haven't found anything like it since. what would you do if one day you finally came across something just like it? would you a. call it an unoriginal, ripoff, or b. rejoice in the fact that you practically get the chance to read your favorite book again?
this is why i decided to read eragon, despite people saying it was a ripoff of lord of the rings. i'm going to be honest with you, i didn't like (like at all) the lord of the rings movies, but i will give it a second change and check out the books because usually they add important details that were missing from the movies that make things overall more enjoyable or understandable. i played the games though (shadow of mordor, shadow of war) and those were pretty kick ass.
i don't understand why something must be completely original in order for it to get the pass. how old are you guys, anyway? i ask because sadly, there comes a point in time where you've seen just about everything this world has to offer, and from that point forward, you're not going to be using the word original, or "a breath of fresh air," as often as you did to describe whatever piece of media it is you're consuming now compared to when you were younger.
but this isn't a bad thing. for example, when you open up a pack of pokemon cards, you're prone to drawing a couple of repeats, correct? but what if, out of all those repeats, one of those cards is a rare? doesn't that make it all worth it?
another example. what if you're favorite book met its conclusion years ago and you haven't found anything like it since. what would you do if one day you finally came across something just like it? would you a. call it an unoriginal, ripoff, or b. rejoice in the fact that you practically get the chance to read your favorite book again?
this is why i decided to read eragon, despite people saying it was a ripoff of lord of the rings. i'm going to be honest with you, i didn't like (like at all) the lord of the rings movies, but i will give it a second change and check out the books because usually they add important details that were missing from the movies that make things overall more enjoyable or understandable. i played the games though (shadow of mordor, shadow of war) and those were pretty kick ass.