I think consuming QL with wildly different levels of budget and experience has made me a lot more able to roll with imperfections and not let them take me out of the story.
My bestie is very discriminating about technical excellence and tone and pitch and believability and plots not having any holes or logical fallacies and I get it, but I feel like it’s very limiting.
And I don’t know, it’s kind of imagination-deficient? I used to let a bad special effect or implausible story element take me right out of an entire movie, but now I feel like, you don’t have to spoon-feed me perfection. I can have discerning taste and also allow leeway for things to go a little wonky as long as there’s enough good stuff in a piece to keep my imagination fired up.
(I also think there can be regional bias about what is and isn’t considered excellent, tonally non-cringe, plausible etc., but it was really the limiting nature of it all—and the inability to fill in a bit with imagination—that I was thinking about at the moment.)
