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I guess if you want to be hung up on semantics. The trolls in this movie are ordinary, though. That's the whole point of them, they're supposed to be just completely normal, so the audience can use them as a cipher for whatever they want the movie to be about. And some people are more ordinary than others.

But wouldn't it be more interesting to see ordinary people... trolls, doing extraordinary things? While still kissing.

Not really, to me. But I think most people feel that way.

It all comes down to what works as escapism, probably. Contrived dramatic improbably bullshit doesn't do it for me.

[The Doctor crosses his legs on the couch, unable to keep still.]

But they're fun. And aliens are cool. Though, yes, improbable compared to reality.

Contrived... perhaps.

Aliens aren't what's contrived. My species is spacefaring, too, you condescending fuck. There's no one who lives to adulthood who doesn't go off planet conquering foreign species and whatnot. There are plenty of rom movies set on vanquished planets.

It's the entire plot structure of that kind of action crap, where plausible reality isn't considered important when it doesn't service the dubious goal of sick awesome explosions. It's just stupid.

No, no, no. Aliens as thought of by humans are completely improbable. And yet, highly entertaining. Things like green men in silver suits, ridiculous.

[And the Doctor pouts slightly.]

Can't there be both romance and explosions?

Who cares whether there are explosions! I would have thought you'd get it. Stupid, improbable shit happens to you all the time, doesn't it? So why do you want to watch anyone doing that themselves?

[He gestures angrily at the screen, where Will Smith and Eva Mendes are on some sort of date where they're racing each other with jetpacks.]

Look. See? Neither of them believes in red romance but serendipity brought them together. Their problems are so small and stupid, you know they'll get together in the end, I get that. They're just some unrealistically good looking assholes doing what assholes do and having unrealistically uncomplicated lives except for this great fucking romance. That's the good thing about it, that's why it's good. How is this hard?

Because improbable things are fun.

[But oh, jetpacks! He will curl up and watch this scene very intently. It's not like he never really understood, but... he's not one to fantasize about romance]

Which is why this film is enjoyable. No one is ever going to find a girl and woo her like that. Well, most people won't, I've had sort of... run-ins... anyway, it's fun to imagine brilliant romances. Just like it's fun to imagine brilliant adventures.

I don't want to hear about your run-ins. I don't know. It's not like I have anything against action or explosions or adventures, they're just usually not nearly as good.

[Just grumping and watching the film. He doesn't want to sound like a wiggler. It's just that life in constant peril is sort of been there and done that. It's better just to watch some jerks be happy, even if that seems really fucking far-fetched.]

Maybe you're right, maybe improbable is the whole point. I don't care.

There's nothing wrong with enjoying improbable things. If no one enjoyed improbable things, it'd be a very boring would indeed.

[He'll stop talking now, curling up on the couch to watch even if he doesn't understand jackshit.

Troll Will Smith is still cool though.]

I guess. It's not that improbable, though.

[Now Will Smith is thoughtfully showing her that he looked up her ancestor's death in the culling registry! But Eva Mendes is upset because it turned out her ancestor was culled for cowardice in failure to cull a few thousand degenerates. She tearfully confesses she's spent her whole life trying to forget her ancestor's shame.]

You don't think so?

[Poor Eva Mendes :(]

No. Look, he's totally flubbing the date. Anyone can set something up that's this romantic, especially if you have a few connections. But actually maintaining the atmosphere is harder, and it's realistically depicting that.

...How do you maintain the atmosphere? Doesn't it sort of just... happen?

I don't know. Perfect romantic situations require some work! You have to be actively trying to not say something that fucks it all up, or pass gas, or tell her you hate her if it's not that kind of date. It's not all effortless.

Usually. I guess it could just happen. I wasn't there, but apparently the way things worked out with my moirail in the alpha timeline was romantic as all fuck. But here it wasn't, it was just...awkward and talking, I don't even know.

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