Deconstruction is supposed to be where you take a genre apart and show the audience how unrealistic/hackneyed/boring and repetitive its basic tenets are. This
doesn't require a creator to like the genre, but it also doesn't require unhappiness and angst. Frankly, I think you can't deconstruct a genre
without at least a bit of irritation at it- if you like what you're working with, you'll end up playing with its tropes, instead.
Deconstruction is supposed to be an act of creative destruction, where the creator strips away everything that's been built up in a genre, and shows the
audience the core premises and conventions of a genre, and how they can be taken in a more realistic direction. This is an intentional choice and style that a
creator of a work takes on, but I fully believe that it shouldn't be advertised or announced.
A true deconstruction shouldn't be announced, because it's obvious to the audience that the work is taking things in a different direction. Anybody
billing their work as one is either purely pretentious, or not actually deconstructing the genre. Since I hate pretentiousness and hate -*hate*!- it when people replace the happiness of a perfectly good world with angst, I'll have no truck with either.
My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Brother Atom Bomb of Courteous Debate. Get yours.
I've been writing a bit.
doesn't require a creator to like the genre, but it also doesn't require unhappiness and angst. Frankly, I think you can't deconstruct a genre
without at least a bit of irritation at it- if you like what you're working with, you'll end up playing with its tropes, instead.
Deconstruction is supposed to be an act of creative destruction, where the creator strips away everything that's been built up in a genre, and shows the
audience the core premises and conventions of a genre, and how they can be taken in a more realistic direction. This is an intentional choice and style that a
creator of a work takes on, but I fully believe that it shouldn't be advertised or announced.
A true deconstruction shouldn't be announced, because it's obvious to the audience that the work is taking things in a different direction. Anybody
billing their work as one is either purely pretentious, or not actually deconstructing the genre. Since I hate pretentiousness and hate -*hate*!- it when people replace the happiness of a perfectly good world with angst, I'll have no truck with either.
My Unitarian Jihad Name is: Brother Atom Bomb of Courteous Debate. Get yours.
I've been writing a bit.