largely because the simplified and retrograde world is not plausible if characters have these modern viewpoints.
Exactly! I felt very stodgy at first trying to talk it out, and that's essentially what we decided. It was absurd, this whole marry-for-love (or not at all) concept. She was endangering her entire society by breaking the contracts in place regarding clan intermarriage. I was totally on the mother's side. It only made sense from a child's modern viewpoint. And for a moment we were wondering if we expected too much, and then remember tSoK, and decided we weren't.
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Date: 2012-07-13 02:09 am (UTC)Exactly! I felt very stodgy at first trying to talk it out, and that's essentially what we decided. It was absurd, this whole marry-for-love (or not at all) concept. She was endangering her entire society by breaking the contracts in place regarding clan intermarriage. I was totally on the mother's side. It only made sense from a child's modern viewpoint. And for a moment we were wondering if we expected too much, and then remember tSoK, and decided we weren't.