| milkyjoe said:
I'm growing tired of you continually arguing against points that I didn't even make, so I'm going to ask you to simply consider the following and take my leave for now. Basically, I'd ask you to realise that something complex with multiple diverse elements can still share something in common with a more simplistic approach. That isn't to say they are identical, nor am I demanding that you hold them in the same regard, just that they have some base similarities. |
I'm sorry I'm coming across as obtuse, and I don't want to and if I've made a mistake I'll work on fixing it.
I trust you know where you're going with this, so what do those similarities show? To me, they don't demonstrate much because most stories that follow those grand lines are not those I consider really great. The save the princess pattern was used ad nauseam and I find that most of my favorite stories don't follow that pattern.
And I seriously don't think all stories follow those lines. A similarity however, so I can meet with you in the middle, would be something like intrigue, denial, confusion, betrayal, attachment (to a place, person or thing), trust, revelation and so on and so forth. But no particular narrative.
