>>24641436
In either sense it does seem like one way or another fiction in general has become to self aware for it's own good. Nothing seems to have any purity to it. Something made without concern for defying or clinging to convention. It's certainly all but impossible to be completely original but no matter which side it's own it calls too much attention. When Campbell wrote his fancy book I never got the direct impression that the observations of story telling he made were all the way they were by design. But now it seems like people look to the heroes journey as kind of a cheat sheet.