And yet another one
May. 16th, 2014 08:02 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
bloodsong1SLB is very good at sparking debate, even when I don't want to. Especially when I don't want to.
The latest installment is the objectivity of the word "good" in relation to media. We were talking about live action movies based on anime. He wants to see "Akira", I want to see "Ruroni Kenshin". He asked me what made "Ruroni Kenshin" good.
"It's a historical drama," I started. He then said I wasn't answering his question, which led to a discussion on objective "good" versus subjective "good". My point was that "good" is subjective. A book, film or tv series can get A+ on all the technical merits like directing, writing, acting, etcetera, but "good" is still in the eye of the beholder and therefore subjective. His point is that all the technical merits is only what matters when he asks someone "What makes it good?" So I gave him the technical merits I could remember before getting out of the car.
It's a historical drama.
It's about an assassin who gives up killing and carries a reverse edged sword to enforce it.
He meets a female dojo master who offers him a place to stay and doesn't care about his past.
They fall in love.
Now I realize that's more a synopsis then actual technical merits, but we were at work and I was annoyed that he spent a quarter of the drive trying to correct me. As I left I informed him we really need to sit down and figure out where and how these continual miscommunications can be avoided. He disagreed.
*sigh*
The latest installment is the objectivity of the word "good" in relation to media. We were talking about live action movies based on anime. He wants to see "Akira", I want to see "Ruroni Kenshin". He asked me what made "Ruroni Kenshin" good.
"It's a historical drama," I started. He then said I wasn't answering his question, which led to a discussion on objective "good" versus subjective "good". My point was that "good" is subjective. A book, film or tv series can get A+ on all the technical merits like directing, writing, acting, etcetera, but "good" is still in the eye of the beholder and therefore subjective. His point is that all the technical merits is only what matters when he asks someone "What makes it good?" So I gave him the technical merits I could remember before getting out of the car.
It's a historical drama.
It's about an assassin who gives up killing and carries a reverse edged sword to enforce it.
He meets a female dojo master who offers him a place to stay and doesn't care about his past.
They fall in love.
Now I realize that's more a synopsis then actual technical merits, but we were at work and I was annoyed that he spent a quarter of the drive trying to correct me. As I left I informed him we really need to sit down and figure out where and how these continual miscommunications can be avoided. He disagreed.
*sigh*
