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No one understands thematics.

Everything has to be a trope. A titillation of the moment. Artists were caught up since the 60s trying to produce new things as if new even exists anymore. It doesn't- it's an illusion brought on by the amnesia of the age. Only those artists that remembered themes knew that what people really wanted was depth and few stumble into creating that depth. The big thing is that no one asks "why" something happens, why a character is what they are, or why situations develop the way they do. They are more often attempting to prove a political point or social commentary or self insert for egoistic reasons. Since they do not ask why, they turn to flipping literary tricks.

That's how we ended up with "well just take a stock character and reverse their role/personality" as if that was real advice. It is a trick to make you think there is a theme because it is echoing a theme, but the author's never answer why that character is a subversion of the truth you already knew. Hence, it all goes down the drain after viewing it. That is why nothing from the last thirty years is liable to stick, aside from two or three names out of thousands. Being subversive is worse than being derivative.