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Originally Posted by OutOfTheCube
Nope, wrong analogy. "Writing" is as essential element to a story, same as "music-playing" would be an essential element to a song.
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No it isn't. The essential element to a story is a plot.
Your position is analogous to complaining about people who don't want to read stories unless they have strong prose, or deeply developed characters who grow and change over the course of the story, or imagery that creates a vivid atmosphere for the story to live in, because in your view all that really matters is an entertaining plot.
Again, it's like you're being a snob but rather than being pretentious about the things people usually are, you're actually drawing the line at "lowest common denominator" and getting irritated that people ask for more than that.
It's an interesting position, to demand entertainment products that concern themselves solely with the desires of mouth-breathers and drooling groundlings, but hey.