Monday, July 28, 2025

[foofbzwe] revenge of the Jedi

team A rises to power and nearly genocides ("humanitarian crisises") team B.  team B survivors regroup, play the plucky underdogs for a while, then overthrow team A.  team B, now in power and fully aware that the reason they succeeded was because team A only "nearly" humanitarian crisised team B earlier, avoids making the same mistake and completely humanitarian crisises team A.  then they live happily ever after.

what sections of this narrative make the best fiction stories?  of course, "happily ever after" because fantasy utopia is pleasant.  though discovering one's dark past might not be.  team B overthrowing evil team A, because we love rooting for the underdog.  we also love tragedies: team B, the good guys, logically descending to evil, more evil than even the evil team A that they overthrew.

No comments :