/lit/ - Literature

>"Dude, it's a giant head."
>"Dude it's a talking tree and a raccoon."
>"Dude, it's a bunch of mutant turtles and a rat."
>"Dude, it's a talking blue hedgehog and his friends fighting an egg shaped man."
>"Dude it's about a plumber that goes through pipes and fights weird mushroom monsters."
>"Dude it's a pink ball with eyes that sucks things up."
>"Stop taking all that seriously."
Rendering the barest possible description of a story's premise to back the argument "the concept is ridiculous so it only works if it's funny" is the bane of modern media and needs to die horribly. How the fuck do you deal with people like this?

>"Dude, it's a giant head."
>"Dude it's a talking tree and a raccoon."
>"Dude, it's a bunch of mutant turtles and a rat."
>"Dude, it's a talking blue hedgehog and his friends fighting an egg shaped man."
>"Dude it's about a plumber that goes through pipes and fights weird mushroom monsters."
>"Dude it's a pink ball with eyes that sucks things up."
>"Stop taking all that seriously."
Rendering the barest possible description of a story's premise to back the argument "the concept is ridiculous so it only works if it's funny" is the bane of modern media and needs to die horribly. Peoples inability to take seriously any fantastical or unorthodox premises and characters are what has been killing creativity, storytelling and sincerity for the past decade and a half.