• SpaceCowboy@lemmy.ca
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    2 days ago

    How do you feel about Lord of the Rings? Nobody has ever put more mystery boxes into a story than JRR Tolkien.

    JJ Abrams didn’t invent putting mysteries into stories, he just gave it the name “mystery box” in a TED talk. The insane internet hatred of JJ Abrams has resulted in people hating a part of world building that has always existed in stories. Just the Youtube videos you’re watching won’t point it out in the things you like and say things like “LOTR sucks because there’s too many mystery boxes!” because they don’t get any monetization that way. They just point it out in things you’re preconditioned to dislike to create a narrative.

    Tom Bombadil is a bigger mystery box than anything JJ Abrams has ever done.