There’s another new buzz word I have learned to dislike immensely, with a passion of a fiery sun... almost up there with ‘problematic’. And that is ‘lazy writing’.
I understand it in the context if a story is written with the most obvious clichés - although even then I would query weather that was actually the intention of the writers; to write a story using clichés. But these days it seems that it is often used to describe any writing that the reader/watcher didn't like.
Your (general you) OTP didn’t get together? Lazy writing! There was a plot twist you didn’t like? Lazy writing! Things were left out the story that you had to deduct yourself instead of being spoon-fed by the writer and that left you confused? Lazy writing!
Maybe it was not so lazy after all, maybe you just weren’t as clever as you thought and missed some of the nuances? Maybe there was a reason the writers preferred this plot or pairing over the one you liked?
It is almost like anything that the reader/watcher didn't like is now chucked into the ‘lazy writing’ basket and I am just getting tired of it... 🙄