This has to be some media literacy phenomenon because WHY have I seen the SAME COMPLAINT FOR THREE PIECES OF MEDIA! Backrooms, Hokum and the last episode of tadc are getting 'critiqued' because for some characters there's little information on their past/ short backstories?
Let me be clear NOT EVERY CHARACTER THAT EXISTS IN A UNIVERSE NEEDS AN EXTENDED BACKSTORY SEQUENCE especially when its EXPLICITLY STATED by said characters or very EASY TO INTERPRET from the CREATORS SUBTEXT or the character is stellar at communication! For those that aren't and are closed off then I understand because usually what they're hiding helps move the story forward / can be a main conflict.
Because WHY am I seeing a critique for Hokum being ' we never find out the witches backstory?' EH!? WHY DO WE NEED TO FOR PLOT PURPOSES????? If this was a movie solely about the witch or if the witch was slated to be a main character then yes BUT SHE CLEARLY ISNT. Why don't you pay attention to whats actually happening ON SCREEN IN FRONT OF YOU? It's not a problem to wonder, a lot of fanfiction is generated because of curiosity and creativity but to use this AS A GENUINE COMPLAINT?
I saw a critique of backrooms, and I shit you not, saying 'we didn't find out much about Clark and his backstory'. ONE YOU CLEARLY DO. TWO you don't need to! I don't need to know every single detail of Clark's life for me to enjoy this film OR UNDERSTAND IT AND HIS ACTIONS, I don't need to know what he ate for breakfast this morning or when he first argued with his parents because IT AIN'T IMPORTANT. If this was a complaint about Mary's past then I would semi understand as it is left intentionally vague, personally I don't have a problem with it but I can see how others would.
FINALLY TADC now I understand the more potential to have other characters backstorys developed with it being a series HOWEVER, each one of these episodes bar the last ARE HALF AN HOUR LONG. It wouldn't be a good show if characters INFO DUMPED their entire backstories to your face, literally telling you, every episode for half an hour. You simply wouldn't have a good show. Instead you find out through situations characters experience and are SHOWN AND NOT TOLD, and even then to me sometimes YOU'RE EXPLICITLY TOLD. 'BUT we didn't find out everything about *insert character name here* or about the first people who entered the circus!'. Listen to me now you have a nine episode half an hour pretty much limited series, you are kidding yourself if you think you are going to find out everything about everyone. Even in a normal tv show with episodes that last an hour for three seasons you don't know the explicit backstories for every single character.
Im not saying people cannot wonder or wish there was more information but to use it as an actual complaint ain't right. Succession is critically acclaimed show its absolutely stellar arguably Kendal is the semi main character but easily Shiv, Roman, Tom and Logan are main characters. Do we know about what exactly went down beat by beat about the Roy siblings childhoods? FUCK NO because we aren't meant to! It's left intentionally vague. Does it create good fanfiction, yes! Should this be used as a reason to why someone would not recommend this to someone else? NO. The creator has chosen this intentionally why? Because you DO NOT NEED TO KNOW every beat of their past to be engaged with the show!
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