Narrative arcs

[mary]

I have worked out why I was having trouble reconciling the way journalists are talking about the Danger Days vs Black Parade thing with how the worldbuilding and the music and stuff made me actually feel!

I read a quote from one of the MCR dudes -- I want to say Mikeyway or Frank, but since I don't have the article on-hand I couldn't say for certain -- where he said that Danger Days is a reaction against the scrapped album, which in turn was a reaction against the Black Parade.

I tend to think of three-act narrative structures in terms of thesis : antithesis : synthesis. Or, to put it another way, as situation : disruption : new situation. Luke Skywalker's on the moisture farm, and then Han Solo's encased in carbonite, and then the Ewoks all have a party.

So where articles have all been encouraging the band to be like "first we were in black and hated everything, but now we wear colour and are happy!", and it's been hard for me to make sense of in my head, this other story is more "first we had Colleen Atwood and Rob Cavallo and made a huge crazy album about death, which ended up making us depressed. So then we said no costumes! no concept! no no no! and tried to make an album that way, but we didn't like that either. So we called Colleen Atwood and Rob Cavallo back and made a huge crazy album about surviving."

Thesis, antithesis, synthesis. That is a story I can dig.

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[flamewarrior]

"first we had Colleen Atwood and Rob Cavallo and made a huge crazy album about death, which ended up making us depressed. So then we said no costumes! no concept! no no no! and tried to make an album that way, but we didn't like that either. So we called Colleen Atwood and Rob Cavallo back and made a huge crazy album about surviving."

THIS!!!! &mary;

[wildefae]

Whoa, it makes way more sense to me that way too. I mean, rather, it didn't NOT make sense to me the other way, but it wasn't...right. Especially when actually reading their interview answers, the boiling down of it in the narrative of the interview was just completely simplistic. "They're colorful and shiny!" Well, yes, but.

...your summary of Star Wars is hilarious, btw.