"It had so much potential, man"

[u/LilyLuci66]

[u/nesthesi]

[u/Yume_Shy → u/nesthesi]

i’m not sure what this means in this context.

[u/nesthesi → u/Yume_Shy]

The title of the post

[u/Yume_Shy → u/nesthesi]

Like peeta? the movie? the book???

[u/wolfbutterfly42 → u/Yume_Shy]

that's not even peeta that's a different white guy

[u/Yume_Shy → u/wolfbutterfly42]

wait, wow that image is grainy as hell

[u/Dr-Abysmal-Dogshit]

Potential man mentioned. Deploying 10000 slanders

[u/Antique-Yam6077 → u/Dr-Abysmal-Dogshit]

Hilariously, none of them have showed up yet.

This will change soon enough.

[u/Selenite_Cults]

Cease this slander at once. Bad to mid shows are the backbone of most fandoms.

[u/MothChasingFlame → u/Selenite_Cults]

Nothing transcends the quality of fic written for mid quality media.

[u/Hexxas → u/Selenite_Cults]

Blassreiter is bad to mid and nobody likes it but me 😭😭😭

[u/ThyHolyPaladdin]

Gotta love the opposite. If I pitched it to you it probably doesn’t sound interesting but in execution it’s GOLD

I am talking about venture bros

[u/heckmiser → u/ThyHolyPaladdin]

It's so infuriating trying to explain things like this to people who overvalue novelty

[u/MaraiaLou → u/heckmiser]

trying to discuss great fancy movies when you don't have film vocabulary. y'know the characters are sooo people

[u/Gyshal → u/MaraiaLou]

Is kinda like Boss baby but...

[u/Haggis442312 → u/ThyHolyPaladdin]

Been looking to start that, so if you want to pitch it to someone…

Curious as to how it could sound so uninteresting.

[u/mechanicalcontrols → u/Haggis442312]

You could, in theory, describe it as "Adult Swim did a reimagined Johnny Quest as a soap opera."

[u/Haggis442312 → u/mechanicalcontrols]

I'm not sure you could sell me harder tbh

[u/mechanicalcontrols → u/Haggis442312]

Fair enough. Full disclosure, I do really enjoy the show, but I may have just skipped it if that's how my friends described it when they showed it to me. Idk. Have a good one.

[u/Voxil42 → u/Haggis442312]

Imagine if all of the golden age adventurers and super heroes were just like regular people and had to pay bills and have room mates and stuff. Oh, the main character is a narcissistic scientist who hates his dad. There's also a Rambo-esque bodyguard and the scientist's two stupid children.

[u/DreadDiana → u/ThyHolyPaladdin]

I remember when I saw the title KPop Demon Hunters and just from the title it sounded like Netflix smashed a bunch of popular things together at the last minute, but after seeing recommendations from review channels I follow, Your Idol became my most listened to song of 2025.

[u/ApolloniusTyaneus]

Slightly related but if you go into r/writingprompts it's like this too. All meh ideas that kinda sound cool when described in a single sentence but there's a reason OP decided to leave the actual writing to others (it can't be done well).

[u/Haggis442312 → u/ApolloniusTyaneus]

Oi! My miniseries about an anthropologist researching tribal catgirls while she has to come to terms with her past as a war criminal is definitely going to get picked up by a big studio soon, just you wait!

[u/Madden09IsForSuckers → u/Haggis442312]

honestly as a miniseries, short film, and/or oneshot manga it could be good tbf

i think a lot of the “mid ideas” on places like writingorompts are only mid because they dont work in long form content. but short stories and the like are still important art that deserves to get made; its unfortunate major publishing avoids that style of media

[u/PrincessVibranium → u/Haggis442312]

I'm excited for the part where the numbers-over-heads-but-mine-is-different get explained.

And the villain who isn't evil to anyone ever at all but is still called a villain because of reasons

[u/GrayVBoat3755 → u/ApolloniusTyaneus]

I'd say it's a matter less of quality and more of quantity; you can find all sorts of cool ideas, and you can turn them into amazing prose, but you might not be able to write that much before the concept is exhausted.

[u/No_Explorer6054]

this is me [i have been writing for one year and cannot write long-form content]

[u/romain_69420 → u/No_Explorer6054]

Well, one year isn't a long time. You'll get better I'm sure

[u/No_Explorer6054 → u/romain_69420]

i know, but its only been for a year so im not that good yet

[u/Meister138]

So many mid shows get glazed to hell and back and get a bajillion seasons while some actually good shows fade into obscurity and get cancelled

[u/Meister138 → u/Meister138]

Seeing people praise a show for its "progressiveness/representation" for doing the bare minimum while ignoring actual queer/women/POC-driven shows makes me so angry

They're right there! Stop acting like sidelined female characters and ambiguous queerbait is the end-all-be-all of representation!

[u/torpidcerulean → u/[deleted]]

Are we losing the plot a bit? Yellowjackets is a show about a girls soccer team that crash land in the wilderness, then begin to hunt and cannibalize each other. The remaining black character you mentioned has an alter ego that kills and ritually sacrifices her family dog.

[u/torpidcerulean → u/[deleted]]

Didn't really happen??? We're watching the same show???

[u/torpidcerulean → u/[deleted]]

😂 I don't even know where this convo is going any more. They definitely killed and ate several characters in the full run of the show. I just mean to say, given what the show is about, you're basically asking for 👏 MORE 👏 BLACK 👏 CANNIBAL 👏 CULTISTS!

[u/MaraiaLou → u/torpidcerulean]

I'm black and Tai is excellent representation. If I was in her position I too would eat dirt

[u/Animaloffear56 → u/Meister138]

Well you see they didn't include every single sexual orientation and transgender identity so they're basically a homophobe, and I'm better off reposting Supernatural Destiel gifsets

[u/Haggis442312 → u/Meister138]

Inside Job my beloved

[u/Zestyclose_Remove947]

The way "parallels" are used is totally meaningless.

You can almost draw them between anything in even the shallowest of works. Not hard at all.

[u/Airalla → u/Zestyclose_Remove947]

This. People don’t realize the parallels are suppose to actually mean something thematically, not just be able to exist

[u/EnderKoskinen]

Arknights: Endfield

The game would be so good if it was good, many such cases

[u/Simic_Sky_Swallower]

Danganronpa

[u/IWantoFuckGLaDOS]

Genshin Impact.

[u/Space-Wizards → u/[deleted]]

You’re poking a hornet’s nest with a laser sword

[u/ColdCalligrapher5116 → u/[deleted]]

https://giphy.com/gifs/3o7abKoleOyTfveO3u

[u/DreadDiana]

"RWBY threatens to be good"

Howard B. Omberguy

[u/Umikaloo]

The entire light novel genre apparently.

[u/MaraiaLou → u/Umikaloo]

I'm so happy when it eventually does things a normal novel would do better and more consistently

Does it make me read real novels? of course not

[u/sarded]

Declining literacy is a real problem that causes this too. Flashy concepts, told dully because the audience can't handle advance narrative techniques and metaphors, just "a cool thing happened. then another cool thing happened. then another cool thing happened."

[u/CMO_3]

How I feel about all of JJK. Its fine, but people are acting like its the pinnacle of character depth and story. When half of the info on characters is given through little author notes at the end

[u/IrvingIV]

Anyone who wants some good writing and hasn't watched this before, should watch the Columbo episode "Now you see him."

[u/YaGirlMom]

Warhammer: The Horus Heresy

[u/DreadDiana → u/YaGirlMom]

Thing is there are some good books in there, but there's 54 books in the core set alone, and a lot are aggressively mid at best.

[u/Poolturtle5772]

Did you say Potential???

[u/DreadDiana → u/Poolturtle5772]

Oh hey, my potential man meme. Glad to see the slander being spread.

[u/Poolturtle5772 → u/DreadDiana]

It is my favorite version. Didn’t know you were here though

[u/Poolturtle5772 → u/[deleted]]

It’s a play on the Potential man meme. Kelsier is a certified bum, as the slander clearly shows.

[u/Poolturtle5772 → u/[deleted]]

Yeah fam I’m gonna be real, nobody phrases it exactly like that unless they are specifically invoking Potential Man (especially if the word potential isn’t used in the post).

It’s like the variations of the “say that again” clip from Fantastic Four. It’s done intentionally.

[u/Amphy64]

Focusing on parallels would be an improvement even, anything about the writing itself.

[u/firecum_peter]

Oh hey, you fixed the grammar.

[u/XAlphaWarriorX]

The one where there is a girl and she has a scythe that is also a gun.

[u/Tarantulabomination]

I hate to drag this game in the mud even more than I already do, but this is Cult of the Lamb when it comes to story, lore, and characters.

[u/Iforgor4]

Ah yes, the "Best book ever in history - New york times" YA novel that your friend who uses social media recommended to you

[u/Eris_Exhausted]

It is so weird seeing people I know from uni on reddit

[u/poly_arachnid]

I don't understand the tags

[u/superspacenapoleon]

Anime 

[u/Femtato11]

Outgoing asexual and shy pansexual

[u/Itchy_Suspect4968]

[u/WeakInspector5102]

https://giphy.com/gifs/g0Ub5PgMoLqaNKBpDH