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agesboy posted...

One of my favorite anime is a perfect example of this

Yeah but the story isn't about collecting mcguffins to allow that operation to succeed. If it instead followed a doctor friend as they train for years to be able to do the operation and then it still ended in failure, it'd be a lot more frustrating. The story was never about saving her life to begin with.

I don't wanna watch someone struggle to do something for the majority of the screen time in the anime and then fail or worse just have it be irrelevant. You COULD tell a powerful story that way, but it's going to make me hate the author for doing that to me, especially as there are many ways to tell powerful stories that don't leave me bitter and frustrated.

Although perhaps I'm really just bitter about poor execution. Edgerunners has a virtually pointless journey but I loved it. They effectively established that the path taken was reasonable which I feel like most stories don't do without feeling contrived. When characters make mistakes, they are actually supposed to be mistakes, and it's believable they'd make them. The character motivations and the setting both lined up correctly for a tragic ending, something I honestly didn't expect from trigger who I generally see as all style, no substance.