Today I got to wondering whilst cleaning my car about games being art. Inevitably I got to the ME series (this is not another stupid ME3 rant). How games can be art because of world design and story. But then I thought about the ending and the Deus Ex Machina bit. It's still quite commonly used. Another example of this would be the Battlestar galactica series. In the end you have some godly intervention bit and all is well, ends well (sometimes).
My question is: should this kind of thing be "allowed". Some people would say yes because of artistic views and bla bla bla. To me this just feels like a cheap fix. You made this big climax from which you can't manoeuvre away and now you need an easy fix: 'oh wait, lets throw god in the equation'. Kara thrace was killed, there was no way of finding earth. Let's bring her back to life in a fighter that can detect an emergency beacon. No other ship can detect this signal, only the mystery ship. It leads to her own corpse. The corpse is conveniently found in her crashed fighter that was shot down billions of light years away from earth. And she is not a cylon that got resurrected. Must be god then. This is when I stand up and yell BULLSHIT.
I hate it when writers pull this crap. Not because I don't believe in god (which I don't) but just because it's convenient. Deus Ex Machina doesn't need to be logical. It doesn't need to explain anything. Basically it's a universal reset button for when you are in a writers block.
So if you didn't read all that just look at the poll. Also, a comment about why you feel they should/shouldn't exist would be nice
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My question is: should this kind of thing be "allowed". Some people would say yes because of artistic views and bla bla bla. To me this just feels like a cheap fix. You made this big climax from which you can't manoeuvre away and now you need an easy fix: 'oh wait, lets throw god in the equation'. Kara thrace was killed, there was no way of finding earth. Let's bring her back to life in a fighter that can detect an emergency beacon. No other ship can detect this signal, only the mystery ship. It leads to her own corpse. The corpse is conveniently found in her crashed fighter that was shot down billions of light years away from earth. And she is not a cylon that got resurrected. Must be god then. This is when I stand up and yell BULLSHIT.
I hate it when writers pull this crap. Not because I don't believe in god (which I don't) but just because it's convenient. Deus Ex Machina doesn't need to be logical. It doesn't need to explain anything. Basically it's a universal reset button for when you are in a writers block.
So if you didn't read all that just look at the poll. Also, a comment about why you feel they should/shouldn't exist would be nice
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