Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-24732895-20140910035928/@comment-4091815-20140920034156

You have such a narrow interpretation of what all these scholars are saying.

It is a study of how fiction is consumed not a guide book saying "it must always be written this way to be valid."

Yes, there is a level of mutual understanding necessary for most literature, specifically science fiction and fantasy, to be understood by a reader but it's not a set rule. If you can make your reader understand your world - no matter how you do that - it won't matter how far from reality you stray.

Your last post is why I dislike joining discussions on the forum - you ignore excellent points and examples (from your own links) that describe visual media as demonstrative storytelling. It's "show not tell" world building. You also ignore the common shortcuts used on a regular basis, specifically in TV, that completely violate your alleged requirement for "mutual understanding" of our world.

Unnatural Time Compression

Convenient Physics

Nonsense Science

If they show us that's how it is - then that is how it is. If you stubbornly refuse to widen your view past your own "real world" prejudice, you're missing the point of all that "fiction theory."

Malia is who she is. In your view she must either be a slobbering feral child or on the "Miss Manners top 10" which is just ridiculous.

She can be a contradiction. She can learn how to dance but not get that you're supposed to sacrifice your own life instead of running for safety. She can grasp Algebra but not understand that her favorite food might not be considered people food and sound funny. You attempt to use "fiction theory" to condemn what is normal television writing just because you don't like a character. That's a perversion of those scholars work and intellectually dishonest.