What do you REALLY want?

Hey Everyone!

Today's topic is following on the same topic in the last post, just taking a different path. As we are talking about writing and other forms of entertainment, movies, video games and comic books, we all want something different yet on par with what we know.

When I read comic books, books, play video games or even watch movies I expect a lot out of any of them, close to a perfection, otherwise they wouldn't be where they are right? Wrong. Sadly, there is a lot of publicized entertainment, that should have never been publicized to begin with. Taking that deeper and questioning myself, am I right? In a general opinion, no. Why? The main reason for this is because we do live in a democracy and majority rules.

I will take one of my favorite authors and stories, J.R.R. Tolkien and The Lord of the Rings. Tolkien and his works had the most amazing depth I have ever seen and read. There is so much more to Tolkien's works then just Lord of the Rings however. In fact, he wrote so much more that when he has passed from this earth, he left it to his children. Sadly, only his youngest son Christopher Tolkien had picked up the works. Seeing how Christopher had picked up the works of his father, a lot of the fans were angry and upset because he was touching something "sacred" even though his father wanted people to add on to the world. Tolkien himself had said " This world that has been created is far from perfect" and knew that others would add in their own stories, races and feeling into it.

Another one of my favorite authors and stories is C.S. Lewis and the works of Narnia. C.S. Lewis delivered something on another level of deep magnitude. He brought to life a fantasy world that can only be seen through a child's mind. Seeing how then, it wasn't sociably acceptable at the time for a grown man to be stuck in a fantasy world. In fact, during that time you were nothing but a joke and considered less of a man. Aside from those times, things change and now these are classics and have a huge following.

Let's move off the topic of books and dive into video games. Video games is another story form that has always caught me in a trap of lore. I will take the World of Warcraft as an example. Despite what the game has turned into today ( nothing but a sickly filled competition filled with egos that pride themselves over gear that do not matter and will change within another year ) Warcraft has a very deep lore. The story is so deep in fact, that Blizzard could probably add another twelve expansions. Yes! I said twelve. To our knowledge, this is only what is available online, who knows what else they have stock piled up within the office and mind of Chris Metzen.

With all of this said, a lot of things seem to fall short for me without a deep line of story, and a captivating emotion. The first time I saw the battle of helms deep in the movie Lord of the rings on the big screen, I had an over powering rage that I wanted to jump through the screen and start busting heads of orcs and goblins. Or in Warcraft, as of recently my favorite leaders Thrall and Vol'Jin were going through some dastardly times, it made me want to pick up an axe and lob it into the face of Garrosh Hellscream and claim the throne of the warchief. ( This change has actually forced me to the alliance, which I am now thoroughly enjoying the storyline of the Worgen, I highly recommend checking it out if you haven't yet. )


Concluding this post, this is what I look for in a story. Although there are many more stories that I thoroughly enjoy. Spawn, Batman, Trigun, Deathnote, this is just to name a few.

My question now is what do YOU look for in a story? In lore? What emotions drive you?

Feel free to post here on the blog, I am looking forward to seeing your responses.

This is Sean signing out.