awesomeswimmer21:

skywalkerrains:

awesomeswimmer21:

I think one of the things that I can’t stand about RJ’s writing is that I feel like he’s making what he’s trying to do SO OBVIOUS. There’s no deftness or subtlety. 

While watching TLJ I knew exactly what he wanted me to feel or think when it was happening. But I believe that if the writer knows what they’re doing, I should just feel or think that way instead of thinking “So the writer is clearly trying to make me feel bad for him… Ok the writer clearly wants me to like this character because they keep pushing them on me… Ok now I’m supposed to think this is funny… Now I’m supposed to be impressed….Ok now I’m clearly supposed to ruminate on the evils of wealth”.

I don’t know, maybe it’s just me, but I feel like he basically takes everything he wants the audience to think and feel and instead of gently guiding us to where he wants us to go, he basically pushes us…off a cliff

Excellent point! Well said. It is honestly the mark of a bad writer when they force an audience to feel something rather than lead them to feel something.

Thank you and yes! And it honestly kind of pisses me off when I can tell that a writer is very clearly trying to manipulate my feelings a certain way. I mean all writers obviously do that, but I shouldn’t be aware of it. The writing should be good enough to immerse me in the story so I don’t notice that the writer is clearly trying to get a certain reaction out of me.

But RJ’s writing was so hamfisted that I could never get fully in the story. And I think a large part of that was that there were times where he was clearly using his new characters as his kind of proxies. I cant get into a story when I keep feeling like the writer is stepping in and talking to me or the audience directly.

I mean it really was just all about RJ and what he wanted to tell us, the audience, or get us to feel. He didn’t create the new characters the way he did because it made sense to the story or who they would be as people or because it was necessary. He did it because he wanted his own mouthpieces. In other words, it wasn’t about the characters or the story and what the audience might actually want. It was about him.