Seriously, how? They’ve been trying to kill of superheroes for years (Watchmen, the Boys) but nothing seems to stick.

  • neebay [any,undecided]@hexbear.net
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    a genre does not die when it has been well satirized or thoroughly deconstructed

    a genre dies when those who control the medium believe that genre will not make enough money anymore

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      4 years ago

      Well yeah. I don’t think anyone here thinks the satire itself is what kills a genre. When a work of satire becomes a cultural phenomenon and no one can take the genre seriously anymore, it stops being profitable.

  • Genres die when it becomes impossible to create original work within it but rather only metacommentary on the genre itself.

    Take the Noir genre. You can write a neo-Noir (like Brick) or a self-conscious imitation (Chinatown, Mank) or a parody but what you cannot do is make a straight ahead Noir.

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    A scathing work of satire that manages to get insanely popular and become a cultural phenomenon.

    That was Don Quixote which killed chivalric romances, and that was Blazing Saddles which killed whitewashed TV Westerns.

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        4 years ago

        Like superheroes, IMO zombies aren’t a genre, they’re an element — they exist within a genre (often action, horror, or thriller especially) but aren’t one unto themselves.

        I think the Walking Dead having a good first season or two that a lot of people watched and then quickly becoming unwatchable garbage wore people out on them.