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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic?

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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic?	comment	To the literary analyst, all works are ripe for analysis. Sometimes, this helps you appreciate a work. Sometimes, it doesn't, but it produces insight into the thought process and culture that produced the work. Other times, it's misguided overkill that may even detract from the work's actual merits (unless the reader happens to be another lit nerd looking for a fun Saturday evening with a text they've already read twice). Most of the time, it's just a fun mental exercise and a good way to boost the imagination. Such an attitude may be expressed in several ways: Insisting that Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory. Casually revealing major plot twists in discussion of the book, or even the book's preface or blurb. Writing dense dense dense descriptions of what makes the book good in the blurb, which only make sense to someone who has already studied the work for several years. Interpreting the work through the "lens" of your personal political ideology and rating the work based on how much it supposedly adheres to said ideology. You can even get away with missing the point if you're a Really Serious Critic who wants to reveal all sorts of hiding meanings/implications inside a work, whether or not they have anything to do with the actual characters or plot. Goodness forbid that the author(s) wanted you to do so (if what the author wanted matters to the analyst). If it does, though, or even quite as possibly if it does not (at least by general agreement), wait for somebody to point out the Muse Abuse. High school and college students now write long-winded essays about the philosophical and socio-religious undertones of Harry Potter and The Twilight Saga. It gets more relevant when you get into works aimed at even younger audiences, however: most kids under the age of twelve or so aren't going to be terribly philosophical; most of them will enjoy a work simply because it's "funny," or "colorful," or even "interesting." Note that having the plot given away becomes less and less of an issue the older the subject is. Most people who haven't read, for example, Moby-Dick will still be familiar with key plot points due to Pop-Cultural Osmosis. See It Was His Sled. Late-Arrival Spoiler can apply in some cases, particularly if the work has been around for a very long while; it can legitimately be very hard to discuss something which has been around for centuries as if this is the first time the audience will ever be hearing of it. For the opposite of this trope, i.e. preemptive dismissal of all literary or aesthetic analysis, see Moffâ€™s Law. See also: True Art Is Angsty, True Art Is Incomprehensible, Applicability.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_12300cc3	comment	Watchmen gets this treatment quite a bit, as does Kingdom Come and The Sandman (1989).
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_133d39d8	comment	Most of the reviews for DOOM: Repercussions of Evil parody this trope. Well, of course. John's rage against the demons stems from his father's longstanding disapproval of his career choice. You see, he sees his father as the demon. But as we all know, John's father was only looking out for his son. It was John, betrayer of his own father, who was the real demon. Of course he was a demon only until he became a zombie.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_18916544	comment	Fillmore! has an episode where the Book Club try to steal the best books from the library for themselves. The head of said club when he is collared and sent to detention rants about how the Book Club deserve them more than others as they are the only ones who appreciate them in the right way and understand things like the subtext of Judy Blume. Ingrid Third points out, "Judy Blume doesn't have a subtext, but she is very good."
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_1b958797	comment	Kris Straub's earlier comic Checkerboard Nightmare occasionally featured the arthouse critic Lance Sharps, a Scott McCloud parody. In his review of CN itself, he remarked that "At first I imagined the robot to be some sort of rape symbolism, and was quite disappointed to find it was merely a robot."
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_1c4cf7dc	comment	The Scarlet Letter. What was once a simple romance novel about two adultering people in early Puritan society has been examined and re-examined to death since the 1850s, trying to find hidden meanings. The biggest offender is the notion of Hester's daughter Pearl being one giant symbol rather than an actual character — which, In-Universe, is implied to be how people around her see her.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_222b64ac	comment	The book Slaughterhouse-Five: Reforming The Novel and The World by literature professor Jerome Klinkowitz has a chapter comparing The Monster at the End of This Book to Vonnegut's novel, mainly in their use of Meta Fiction.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_2350acad	comment	Parodied many many times in Cheers in which the barflies would do it as their version of a mental exercise. For example, this examination of Wile E. Coyote and the Road Runner, with Norm later huffing at Cliff, "I suppose that proves that the Coyote's the Antichrist? Come on!"
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_2372359	comment	This is used in-character in The Belgariad, where a ghost story is told near the beginning of the first book, and the leader of the farming community it was told to passes it off as a moralistic sermon about fear and greed. The irony kicks in, in a later book, however, when the protagonists go to Maragor, the place where the story was set and could have actually happened, as it is inhabited by the ghosts of the Marags, slaughtered ages before.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_2379c677	comment	The Bantam Classic printing of Great Expectations has a lengthy introduction by John Irving that does spoil the whole plot before page one of chapter one, does compare the book to various other works of Dickens, and does go into way too much scholarly analysis, but at least doesn't go into much Everyone Is Jesus in Purgatory.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_24a0eb84	comment	This seems to be something the author believes as well: "Politics change, but stories remain." Of course, considering that this is the man who didn't realize until decades later that the story of the alcoholic struggling-writer antagonist of The Shining (written while King was struggling with his own alcoholism) might have been just a wee bit autobiographic, invoking Death of the Author is a pretty safe bet when it comes to finding deeper meaning in his work.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_250e58f6	comment	Parodied in Lasagna Cat in 07/27/1978, an hour-long analysis of a single strip of Garfield stealing Jon's pipe.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_2a54016d	comment	The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn starts with a death threat aimed at anyone who tries to analyze it. This is often taken as an invitation to do so.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_30a5ebfd	comment	Naruto gets a lot of this when it comes to national politics, and the use of 12-year-old ninjas as living weapons, along with the true meaning of Will of Fire.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_39345f1f	comment	Nick Cave's novel And the Ass Saw the Angel is a giant Mind Screw set Through the Eyes of Madness, brimming with confusing religious symbolism, right down to the title. In an interview, he told everyone not to read too much into it, and just to enjoy it. The story may be found here.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_3a7f5b49	comment	There are a few people who analyze the living crap out of Alice: Madness Returns, as can be expected given that it's a Darker and Edgier sequel to Alice's Adventures in Wonderland.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_3b34143f	comment	There's an analysis of Harry Potter entitled Harry Potter and International Relations, which looks at how IR theory relates to the Harry Potter universe. Unintentionally hilarious, considering a running gag in the beginning of the fourth book is about how boring international relations are. Among the editorial essays on MuggleNet, there's an essay on the relationship between Harry and Voldemort, and how the language in key moments implies symbolic rape. 1
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_3e4fcdd3	comment	On the subject of Melville, we can't go without mentioning Moby-Dick. It's been described as the epitome of everything American. A metaphor for the ambitions and desires that make up the American Dream; the quintessential story of the "Go West" attitude, and of the stubborn desire for upward mobility and to win in the competition despite odds. It seems to be applicable to all aspects of that Americana Thing. Then again, Melville may have meant more to this than just that standard American Dream message, if at all. But I doubt the teachers would point that one out.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_3ec5b7a6	comment	A large amount of House of Leaves is people doing this to the fictional film "The Navidson Record". The novel itself seems to invite it to a large degree, to the point that some have theorized that, at its heart, it's a satire of overanalyzing stories.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_42ffb88e	comment	SCP Foundation: Invoked in-universe with SCP-3435 (a painting of a wyvern wizard and a cyborg T. Rex fighting), which makes viewers nauseous if they overthink what the painting is supposed to represent. The artist who made it deliberately added this feature so when critics he hated came by, he could laugh at the sick looks on their faces.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_44fe781e	comment	Neon Genesis Evangelion has gotten this treatment, of all places, in an economics essay. The Eva-effect reaches to the rest of the Super Robot genre. Any Super Robot show made after 1997 is either considered some sort of Reconstruction of the Super Robot genre, a Take That! to Eva, a parody of classic Super Robot shows...or all of the above. Eva's connection with this trope was even referenced in FLCL, where one of the characters is said to have "written a long book on the deep mysteries of Eva."
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_4522fd1	comment	Mocked in the Whateley Universe when Phase takes a World Literature class on the epic. The papers written on the classical Greek and Roman epics are all flamed by fellow student Majestic. Who happens to be the incarnation of Hera/Juno and might actually know more about this than anyone else in the class.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_4c99197e	comment	In the "pitch reel" for The Muppet Show, the spokes-muppet presented a list of various demographics, and what that demographic would like about the show and why. One of those groups listed was intellectuals and college students, and the thing that would appeal to them was the meaning of everything.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_4dd2f23b	comment	Tokyo Babylon is a good example of the second point. The french edition's summary used for promotion reveals all the important plot points up to volume 6. Of a 7 volumes series.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_5030d261	comment	Attack of the 50 Foot Woman: a commentary on the conformity of 1950's gender roles and how society reacts to their defiance, or a silly B-Movie?
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_51507cf2	comment	Something Awful also did a parody
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_543bfacd	comment	Good old Dracula! This book's probably been analysed more than there are vampires. Fear of the foreign and foreigners, capitalism and Jewish stereotypes, maternity and acceptance of motherhood (is Mina a strong or weak character?), Christian and Holy Communion, political repression, homosexuality, you name it; it's been analysed. And of course, blood-drinking equals symbolic sex and/or rape. That's a staple of every vampire book now.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_54f2e563	comment	Antimatter Dimensions: In-universe, one news ticker is a person searching for meaning in the game and positing that it is one long extended metaphor for overcoming depression, with the various game mechanics standing for life changes, setbacks, positive/negative thoughts, and so forth.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_5cff6176	comment	This deconstruction of Sinistar entitled I Hunger, therefore, I live.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_5eb01b83	comment	Subverted in the post-Doctor NA Down. At first glance, it looks like Bernice's student Ash's analysis of 2530s pulpzine character Mr Misnomer is this, with Benny herself unable to decide if "it was really quite clever or just psychoanalytic piffle". If you actually read the exerpts though, it turns out Ash is making a somewhat more reasonable point along the lines of "obviously this isn't intentional, because this is schlock fiction that was literally churned out by a computer, but it does say something about the society that created it". (Although Ash's friend Lucrezia suspects that her in-depth study of the homoerotic BDSM undertones is just down to personal interest.)
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_5f710a0	comment	Parodied in a ProZD skit. Person A criticizes a manga for just being an excuse for mindless fanservice, to which Person B utterly loses their shit about how there's a lot of deep symbolism that's clearly going right over Person A's head. Cut to a shot from an interview with the author who said he just wanted to draw big titties.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_6661b4d1	comment	For those of you unfamiliar with The Monster at the End of This Book, it's a book aimed at very young children, is about a dozen pages long, and has roughly one sentence of text every two pages. The entire plot can be summed up as "Grover wants you to stop turning pages of this book because he's afraid of the monster at the end of it. Who turns out to be Grover himself."
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_66fd198d	comment	The "collectible booklet" enclosed with the DVD release of The Thomas Crown Affair (1999) casually spoils the ending of both the remake and the original while discussing the ways in which the two films differ.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_6806a8b9	comment	Peter, Paul and Mary contribute "Puff the Magic Dragon", written by Peter Yarrow and Leonard Lipton. It is JUST a fantasy about a boy and his dragon and has no hidden meaning. As Yarrow's bandmate Mary Travers once said, "If Peter had wanted to write a song about smoking marijuana, he would have written a song about smoking marijuana."
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_69b01957	comment	In his Top 10 '80s Movies video, Benzaie seems to take Heavy Metal just a little too seriously, going as far to compare it to the Sexual Revolution of the 1960s, but on a smaller scale. Well, more power to you, but the people who actually made the film take it considerably less seriously in the "Making of Heavy Metal" documentary, describing it more appropriately as the last gasp of the counterculture before the wave of 1980s conservatism (apparently, they didn't watch a lot of MTV during the '80s). And his views on the Conan the Barbarian film were taking it too seriously also. Interesting that he praised that film's audio commentary, which has been ridiculed online and even by Edgar Wright on one of the audio commentaries to Scott Pilgrim vs. The World.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_70c7b114	comment	Gilligan's Island: The Official Couch Potato Handbook has a page deconstructing the series in terms of Freudian symbology. It's disturbingly plausible. Another fun (and plausible) one is that the castaways represent the Seven Deadly Sins. Gilligan is Sloth, the Captain is Wrath, the Professor is Pride, Mr. Howell is Greed, Mrs. Howell is Gluttony, Ginger is Lust and Mary-Ann is Envy.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_74f7210c	comment	It's been written, and seems possible, that The Legend of Zelda, particularly OOT, has Trinitarian/Biblical undertones in the nature of Triforce. There are three parts of the triforce, Courage (represented by Link), Power (represented by Ganondorf), and Wisdom (represented by Zelda). There are, as well, three Spiritual Stones. This may just be the Rule of Three motif, but it's always possible.note It's worth pointing out that for the original Legend of Zelda up until late development of A Link to the Past, that Miyamoto intended the world religion to be Christianity. However, also worth noting is that he doesn't practice it himself and chose to abandon that idea because he might portray it in a way that would be unintentionally offensive or just incorrect. So the likelihood of Ocarina of Time being a Trinitarian allegory is basically none. The Seven Sages are important as well for a number of reasons. The motif of number seven as a powerful number goes back at least as far as Mesopotamian times (Sumerian mythology/history has a group of people, the Apkallu, literally known as the Seven Sages.) and it, that is the importance of the number seven, certainly appears in the works of the Bible as well. Majora's Mask, gets this due to being the Darker and Edgier direct sequel to Ocarina of Time that deals with the nature of masks and a "Groundhog Day" Loop with The End of the World as We Know It via Colony Drop of an angry anthropomorphized moon always looming. Some have theorized that the different areas and dungeons represent the stages of grief that Link is going through over the loss of Navi. Or alternatively, the stages the whole world of Termina is going through in the face of their impending destruction. This episode of Game Theory proposes the then-obscure idea that Link died in the opening of the game and all of Termina is merely his purgatory until he accepts his death and moves on to the afterlife proper. And then this article completely refutes it with the multiple Word of God statements that Termina is a parallel world, and the fact that Link couldn't have died while falling into the tree.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_7bff7264	comment	Halo: Combat Evolved (and only Combat Evolved) is a post-modernist work of art, comparable to the Iliad, the Chief descended from Rambo AND Captain America, and... look, you just got to read it. It specifically features religious references all over the place. Heck, even the main theme is Gregorian chanting.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_7c055e7e	comment	The Old Man and the Sea: GOOD GOD! this one's been analyzed to beyond death. Mr. Hemingway said it was just about a dude and a fish.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_7f2ff423	comment	The last episode of Bottle Fairy inspired "Too many words about Bottle Fairy," which interprets the fairies as dolls Sensei-san's "deeply disturbed" (possibly autistic) younger sister uses to interact with a world she is unable to cope with herself.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_7fc78282	comment	A popular reading of The Lord of the Rings holds that it's an allegory for World War II: the Shire was England and the hobbits were the English, the elves were the French, Mordor was Nazi Germany and Sauron was Hitler, and the One Ring was the atom bomb or nuclear power. J. R. R. Tolkien emphatically stated—including in the prologues to later printings—that The Lord of the Rings was not an allegory for World War II and that he disliked allegories anyway. Tolkien had been writing The Lord of the Rings and giving the Ring its central importance prior to World War II, before he ever heard of the possibility of an atomic bomb. Eventually, Tolkien went as far as to write an outline of what the book would have been like if he had meant it as a World War II allegory. Among other things, Saruman would not have been counted on as an ally, and Sauron would have betrayed him; Saruman would have tried to make his own One Ring; and in the end the Fellowship would have had to use its power to win. It's also noted that both sides in that conflict would have held Hobbits in hatred and contempt, and they wouldn't have survived long even as slaves. It should be noted however, that Tolkien's statements are not intended to imply that there is no greater meaning behind the works. It is simply that they are not allegorical. That is, there are no one-to-one comparisons between things in the fantasy world and things in the real world. First of all, in order to begin understanding the points Tolkien is making in his work one has to actually finish reading it: i.e. read Lord of the Rings, The Hobbit AND The Silmarillion at the very least. This is because all of these books are intended as a single work. Secondly, Tolkien wrote an essay about his philosophy of literature that more or less basically tells you how to read his writing called Mythopoesis. So there's no real excuse for getting it wrong. You'd be hard-pressed to argue that Sauron isn't a fascist, and indeed the actual neo-Nazi Varg Vikernes has admitted to being inspired by Sauronnote In terms of aesthetics, that is. He doesn't think Sauron is supposed to be the good guy.. It's simply that any one-to-one comparison between him and a real life fascist will fall apart immediately under any type of scrutiny AND entirely misses the actual points that Tolkien is making about fascism as an ideology separate from any particular person.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_816181cb	comment	Decades after it was published, it was "discovered" that The Wonderful Wizard of Oz actually was intended to be read as an allegory for political people and events of the time it was published. Apparently the people who made this discovery had no problem believing that these allegories were meant to be there, even though they were much more clear to scholars looking for something to analyze than to readers of Baum's age who were surrounded by them every day.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_87b55b5d	comment	Parodied by The Onion on at least three occasions. Made all the more hilarious by an AP English test from a few years back that involved analysing an Onion article.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_893bf98d	comment	You'd be amazed at the amount of serious academic (and non-academic) works out there that analyse Charlie and the Chocolate Factory as one big, religious metaphor with Willy Wonka as God (although one does suggest that Wonka actually represents Satan instead.) In Critical Approaches To Food in Children's Literature, which critically analyses the use of food and food symbolism in children's books, there is an essay that discusses candy and socio-religious identity formation in Charlie, with references to many other works also proposing that Wonka is God. It's... pretty intriguing stuff.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_89ce309d	comment	There are pieces of literature that are standard reading for all IB students, including: Macbeth, Romeo and Juliet, The Taming of the Shrew, Othello, Sir Gawain and the Green Knight, An American Childhood, Things Fall Apart, Heart of Darkness, Oedipus Rex, Antigone, The Bluest Eye, Pride and Prejudice, The Great Gatsby, you name it. If we've read it, we analyzed every last sentence to death. This also includes Maus and The Absolutely True Diary of a Part-Time Indian, which are, after all, comic books. International Baccalaureate English students are practically parodies of this trope, taken to over the top ways. The same goes for honors English students in college prep Catholic high schools and AP (Advanced Placement) English literature students everywhere.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_8ba4613a	comment	Death Note gets a lot of this, helped in no small part by its morally ambiguous characters.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_924b6d63	comment	Xenogears. Where do you even start? Suffice it to say nearly any of the serious fans will talk your ear off about pet theories just as much as a certain character in it would. The game is literally fanservice for overthinking types.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_9257f03b	comment	Midsommar: Vulture film critic Angelica Jade BastiÃ©n lambasted the film for a wide range of questionable statements she thought the film was making, particularly in the ending, which she saw as supporting Dani's murder of her boyfriend. She apparently forgot that portraying an action isn't necessarily an endorsement of that action. Just because the protagonist does it doesn't mean the film is saying that it should be done. After all, it's a horror film, and the villagers are the villains, making the ending less a didactic statement about gender politics and more of a Downer Ending where The Villain Wins in a horrifying way by manipulating a drugged and traumatized Anti-Hero.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_933664f6	comment	The foreword to Halo: The Flood by Ian Rankin mentions how the author attended a lecture on his book, and was surprised at the things that were being read into it, most of which he'd never consciously included.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_93e8b35e	comment	Alice in Wonderland gets quite a few critics analyzing exactly what everything means. Teenagers and stoners love to paint it as a drug allegory, while others see it as story of madness or a Dying Dream. Still more think that it's satirizing religion, British Imperialism, or language and logic. Later in life, Carroll, a conservative mathematician, would reportedly claim it was, and always had been, a hidden tract against "new math" and how people ascribing to it lived in a world of neither rhyme nor reason. This may actually make him a victim of this trope in regards to his own work. On the other hand, there are quite a few additions in the final book that arenâ€™t present the original draft, which was intended solely as a childrenâ€™s story, and these all have some allegory related to math which were later found.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_9acdda28	comment	Richard Adams has always sworn that Watership Down was intended to be a children's book. However, many fans and critics don't agree and often see the book the 1970s' answer to Animal Farm, a political animal fable that focuses on communism, and specifically, Stalinism.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_a4a6b86a	comment	Code Geass has been subject to plenty of politically-minded interpretations, especially the War on Terror, occupied nations, and stripped national identity. Goro Taniguchi flatly denied any political motivation and said he just wanted to make an entertaining series.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_a609791a	comment	Pretty much every version of Scooby-Doo. Whether intentional or not, the fact that most villainsnote The most critically-acclaimed installments of the franchise are the ones that subvert this, such Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island or Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated. in Scooby-Doo episodes are normal people masquerading as a supernatural monster is very much in line with the typical skeptical mindset, which feels that a naturalistic explanation (Old Man Johnson scaring people away from the pirate treasure by dressing up as a werewolf) is much more reasonable and likely than a supernatural one (werewolves exist). Beyond the superficial "ghosts aren't real", it's been suggested that Scooby-Doo teaches two lessons that encourage a skeptical mindset: 1) Some adults will lie to you for their own benefit 2) Other adults will believe them, so you have to find the truth for yourself.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_a851558c	comment	The Confidence-Man. note Most authorities trace the origin of All Fools' Day to a Hindu vernal celebration, a masquerade called Huli... The avatars of the Confidence man are quite literally avatara, that is, successive incarnations of the Hindu god of salvation, Vishnu. The first major avatar of Vishnu is as a fish who recovers the lost sacred books; the first avatar of the Confidence man is an "Odd fish!" who brings to the world injuctions from The Bible. The second avatar is a tortoise who upholds the world; the second avatar of the Confidence man is a "grotesque" man who slowly stumps around, lives "all 'long shore" and holds his symbolic "coal-sifter of a tambourine" high above his head. After this comes eight other major avatars and innumerable minor ones; the Guinea avatar lists eight other men and innumerable minor ones... The teachings of Buddha aimed for nirvana, which means literally the extinguishing of a flame or lamp. According to Hindus, Buddha was Vishnu incarnate as a deceiver, leading his enemies into spiritual darkness. The last avatar of the Confidence man, the Cosmpolitan, finally extinguishes the solar lamp and leads man into ensuing darkness. The story is a social satire by Herman Melville, but it's so complex with his opinions on morality, religion and the Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism that entire other books are written on the analysis of all the symbolism. The man didn't even put a pun into the book without a deeper meaning, apparently. On the subject of Melville, we can't go without mentioning Moby-Dick. It's been described as the epitome of everything American. A metaphor for the ambitions and desires that make up the American Dream; the quintessential story of the "Go West" attitude, and of the stubborn desire for upward mobility and to win in the competition despite odds. It seems to be applicable to all aspects of that Americana Thing. Then again, Melville may have meant more to this than just that standard American Dream message, if at all. But I doubt the teachers would point that one out.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_b36a660d	comment	This is talked about in the movie Fame. Music student Bruno argues with his instructor, Mister Shorofsky, that if Mozart were alive today, he'd be cranking out rock and roll songs, not chamber music and symphonies, because Mozart wasn't doing it to be "artistic", but rather just to put bread on the table.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_b4709254	comment	Some of the very pages on TV Tropes, but in a good way.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_b47df62e	comment	Confused Matthew argues in his epilogue to his No Country for Old Men review that it, and 2001, were created cynically for these sort of people. Didactic elements were peppered into the film in place of characters, dialogue or plot.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_b8fc7376	comment	Played with at the opening of The Pajama Game, where Hines appears in front of the curtain to proclaim the play's serious themes:
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_bc848d30	comment	SpongeBob SquarePants: In 2005, the journalist Wilker de Jesus Lira wrote a monograph called "O merchandising capitalista no desenho Bob Esponja" (The capitalist merchandising in the SpongeBob cartoon) where he attempts to show that SpongeBob preaches the American capitalism that predates the lower classes, saying that "SpongeBob is the perfect capitalist employee, who doesn't rebel against his chief and accepts everything, even if he lives with a misery salary." Others have argued that each character represents a deadly sin. Krabs is Greed. Plankton is Envy. Sandy is Pride. Patrick is Sloth. Squidward is Wrath. Gary is Gluttony. And SpongeBob is lust (in case anyone is confused, lust is not simply referring to sexual lust, but for a general act of doing what on wants, i.e. hedonism).
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_bd54ba07	comment	Is Blazing Saddles a serious deconstruction of the Western and a profound statement on race relations in America, or just a lowbrow genre parody? Depends on who's asked. Of course, "both" is a viable answer.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_be3bd6	comment	Frequent with theatrical re-releases of classic movies. The 2012 re-release of Lawrence of Arabia, for instance, was introduced with a ten minute appreciation from Martin Scorsese... which managed to spoil every single plot point and iconic shot/edit Lawrence had to offer. Presumably the studios operate from the assumption that everyone watching has already seen the movie.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_be7d29db	comment	Oancitizen of Brows Held High fame makes a habit of this, especially in his "Between The Lines" videos. His earliest defining work on the TGWTG site was analyzing the themes and metaphors inherent in Nella's My Little Pony tales during The Nostalgia Chick's review of the MLP movie.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_beac6ffb	comment	Majora's Mask, gets this due to being the Darker and Edgier direct sequel to Ocarina of Time that deals with the nature of masks and a "Groundhog Day" Loop with The End of the World as We Know It via Colony Drop of an angry anthropomorphized moon always looming. Some have theorized that the different areas and dungeons represent the stages of grief that Link is going through over the loss of Navi. Or alternatively, the stages the whole world of Termina is going through in the face of their impending destruction. This episode of Game Theory proposes the then-obscure idea that Link died in the opening of the game and all of Termina is merely his purgatory until he accepts his death and moves on to the afterlife proper. And then this article completely refutes it with the multiple Word of God statements that Termina is a parallel world, and the fact that Link couldn't have died while falling into the tree.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_c0c57462	comment	Chrono is a Christ figure. And that's just the beginning. One of the arguments given is that the three gurus are named Gaspar, Melchior and Balthasar... which is actually a Woolseyism inserted in the English version. In the original Japanese, they are named the much less impressive Gash, Mash, and Bash.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_c0ebde70	comment	Scooby-Doo! and the Loch Ness Monster is at least a little about scientific skepticism, isn't it? Anybody?
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_c4282b71	comment	People love applying this to My Little Pony: Friendship Is Magic. There's been essays on everything from the political makeup of Equestria to the application of Jung's shadow archetype to the Great and Powerful Trixie to psychoanalysis of the main cast, complete with personality disorder diagnoses. This is part of a larger trend of overanalysis (often lampshaded as "Today on overanalyzing a child's cartoon..."), which includes the famous physics presentation that concluded that Applejack is made out of dark matter.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_c43df4d8	comment	In the classic Doctor Who story "City of Death" the TARDIS lands in an art gallery and is mistaken for a piece of modern art. Two art lovers note played by John Cleese and Eleanor Bron wax lyrical about its brilliance as a comment on modern life. Seeing three people and a robot dog pile into it before it de-materialises in front of them doesn't change their mind.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_c4b4efd5	comment	Uncyclopedia's Fisher Price: A Retrospective, a multiple pages-long essay regarding a page created by a Wiki Vandal which consists nothing but the text "go eat shit fuckers".
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_c5d05a73	comment	Parodied in "Hyakugojyuuichi 2003" by Lemon Demon, which has a verse daring listeners to try and analyze Neil Cicierega's Animutation "Hyakugojyuuichi" (a nonsensical Flash video set to one of the ending themes from PokÃ©mon: The Series)
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_c66f52d9	comment	Todd in the Shadows: he himself acknowledges his tendency to over-analyze inherently cheap and shallow pop songs.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_ca5d97f1	comment	Parodied in Monty Python's Flying Circus, A murder mystery about railway timetables is given an inane analysis by "Gavin Millarrrrrrrrrr". An excerpt: The analysis of "Le Fromage Grand," a pretentious French film with a ridiculous shortage of dialogue:
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_d0cc7e8a	comment	Fifty Shades of Grey of all things. The original book was lambasted endlessly for its superficial and slanted portrayal of BDSM relationships. The movie on the other hand, partially due to the lack of the cringe-worthy inner monologues and more focus on the character-interactions, accidentally acknowledges that the problem is not the BDSM itself, but the trust issues in the relationship. Anastasia is being naive and inexperienced, getting all her knowledge of the topic from cursory internet searches that immediately focus on the more hardcore aspects of the fetish, thus poisoning her expectations. Grey, on the other hand, is obsessed with control and suffers from trust issues due to a Freudian Excuse and needlessly rushes things with the contract even though they both enjoy the activity without it. Both of these things are portrayed as bad things that jeopardize their relationship, while BDSM was something they both enjoyed until the very end and isn't vilified in the movie (in the last scene, it turns sour because they purposefully step over Anastasia's limits). In other words, it is a cautionary tale about doing relationships in general wrong.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_d1fbfbbc	comment	The Twilight Saga seems to have had a bunch of critics' panties in a bunch when they found out that the author was a Mormon. When Bella and Edward decide to remain chaste, it seemed to produce theories that the author was brainwashing kids into accepting everything about her religion. "We can't have sex because it'll kill you except for when we get married for some reason" does sound rather like abstinence moralizing. Though, according to a lot of current and former Mormons that have read the books, there are a lot of things in the books based on Mormon ideology/culture. However, the general consensus is that it isn't intentional proselytizing, just the author writing what she knows. For specific examples see this hilarious series of posts. There have also been some laughable attempts to identify "Mormon themes" in Twilight by people whose total knowledge of Mormonism seems to come from reading a couple articles on The Other Wiki. Mainly they just take concepts that are vague or fairly common and try to label them as uniquely Mormon, as though Mormons are the only ones who believe in close-knit families or frown on sex outside of marriage. Cleolinda Jones recently blew her own mind when she realized that the Quil/Claire "relationship" (the one where the teenage werewolf imprints on a two-year-old?) may actually be named after/inspired by Clare Quilty in Lolita. Cleo believes this might be some sort of cosmic joke.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_d5361876	comment	The Mother fandom has this in spades. GIYGAS IS A FETUS. Even if Giygas isn't a fetus, he sure does look like one◊.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_d977308b	comment	Whether intentional or not, the fact that most villainsnote The most critically-acclaimed installments of the franchise are the ones that subvert this, such Scooby-Doo on Zombie Island or Scooby-Doo! Mystery Incorporated. in Scooby-Doo episodes are normal people masquerading as a supernatural monster is very much in line with the typical skeptical mindset, which feels that a naturalistic explanation (Old Man Johnson scaring people away from the pirate treasure by dressing up as a werewolf) is much more reasonable and likely than a supernatural one (werewolves exist).
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_d9c602eb	comment	South Park parodied this in the episode The Tale of Scrotie McBoogerballs, in which the boys write a book of absolutely horrible depravity with the express purpose of outclassing The Catcher in the Rye's disappointingly non-vulgar content. But lo and behold, everyone else applies this trope in droves. This can also be seen as a commentary on South Park itself, as well as critics who analyze it.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_ddc476b4	comment	GameFAQs has plot analysis for the entire Silent Hill series that are longer than the installments' walkthroughs combined. It's possible the authors simply finagled course credits for games already played. At least it makes interesting reading for fans who can't get enough Silent Hill.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_dfc84f1c	comment	One fan of Bloody Urban left a comment praising this page for its (completely unintentional) satire of capitalist values.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_e25322af	comment	Homestar Runner: Of all things, it is given this treatment by The Homestar Runner Wiki. Someone made a page on Genius (a website dedicated to crowd-sourced analysis of song lyrics and other media) for "Fish-Eye Lens", singling out all the ways the cartoon parodies rap and hip-hop videos from The '90s (especially the use and abuse of the Fish-Eye Lens in music videos by Beastie Boys).
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_e8946aae	comment	The original Winnie-the-Pooh novels have dozens of serious or semi-serious works written about them such as The Tao of Pooh or Pooh and the Philosophers. Usually these are written with a tongue-in-cheek attitude, though, so they can often be quite entertaining (the Disney version does not get the same treatment; if these books mention it at all, it's usually in derogatory terms).
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_e8cd02cd	comment	Parodied in Hypnospace Outlaw when Gill Sanders, leader of The SAI Freelands subcommunity, has a page beginning a work-in-progress scene-by-scene analysis of the Chowder Man song "Ready to Shave", which is a seven-minute rock epic about Chowder Man shaving. Other SAI Freelands members find it completely asinine, a notion which Gill scoffs at.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_e9e2b5e9	comment	Anything Starslip's Vanderbeam analyzes becomes saddled with more symbolism than it deserves. Taken to extremes: On one occasion, Vanderbeam escapes a villain's mind control by realizing that the mind control technique "shifts the context to a metadiscussion on the commodification of power." Vanderbeam later saves the universe by recontextualizing a piece of artwork, "calling attention to its dual nature as object and objectification". He later defeats a villain by analyzing the artistic and cultural significance of the design of the villain's ship.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_f197ea60	comment	Dinosaur Comics:
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_f655ed11	comment	Frasier Parodied in an episode where Frasier and Niles read the manuscript to the second ever novel of a famous author, then tell him how much they enjoyed how it was evocative of Dante's Divine Comedy. The author states that he didn't intend such imagery, and bitterly concludes that he must have "drawn the whole thing from Dante" before angrily destroying the manuscript. Frasier and Niles console themselves by claiming that the critics would have picked up on the Dante allegory and torn the novel apart. In another episode, Frasier begins having a recurring dream where he has a Bedmate Reveal with Gil, his Ambiguously Gay co-worker. He spends the entire episode over-analyzing and racking his brain trying to figure out what the dream means and what its trying to tell him. He finally concludes that since he had been complaining about being bored at work, his brain invented some overly complex problem to keep him entertained. Simply "having an unusual dream" wasn't enough. This gets further riffed on at the end of the episode, where he has the dream again, except Sigmund Freud is also in bed with him.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_f8eaad5b	comment	Citizen Kane draws immense amounts of film criticism due to its reputation as the Best Movie Ever. Critics dissect just about every aspect of the film on the quest to say something new about it. Of course, this is at least in some part justified: Kane is a very intricately crafted and sophisticatedly styled film, especially for the American cinema and doubly so for 1940s American cinema. Amusingly, an officially sanctioned documentary on Citizen Kane, included with the special-edition DVD release, is nearly as long as the film itself!
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_f9bf945b	comment	In an in-universe example, in the essay-fic, Equestria: A History Revealed, it seems that the Lemony Narrator needs to learn about this, as she picks apart benign things and events for evidence while breezing past events of actual significance. Her analysis includes, among other things: the word choice of select sources, what rocks can metaphorically represent, citation of a cereal box and a hobo, and making a far-fetched leap in logic to relate Celestia to Italian food when a cooking book mentions "the elements of a good pizza".
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_fcfa999b	comment	FLCL is one to talk: The show is full of such frantic (and hilarious) Mind Screw that it's not clear if anyone is even clear on what the plot is, let alone what it's all supposed to mean. Brought to you by the folks who made Eva, of course.
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What Do You Mean, It's Not Didactic? / int_fd74a791	comment	Doctor Who New Adventures: In Sky Pirates!, we're told that Bernice Summerfield, when an angsty teenager, wrote a lengthy dissertation on the Ralph Wolf and Sam Sheepdog cartoons that used the words "Apollonian" and "Dionysian" 327 times, pointed out the significance of the supposedly primitive wolf being the tool user, and portrayed Sam as the unwitting dupe of a culture that killed and killed again, hypocritically "defending" its victims from outsiders, before concluding that everything ended in misery and death and she was glad she didn't have a boyfriend or girlfriend because they were all wilfully uninterested in the important truths behind these so-called jokes. Subverted in the post-Doctor NA Down. At first glance, it looks like Bernice's student Ash's analysis of 2530s pulpzine character Mr Misnomer is this, with Benny herself unable to decide if "it was really quite clever or just psychoanalytic piffle". If you actually read the exerpts though, it turns out Ash is making a somewhat more reasonable point along the lines of "obviously this isn't intentional, because this is schlock fiction that was literally churned out by a computer, but it does say something about the society that created it". (Although Ash's friend Lucrezia suspects that her in-depth study of the homoerotic BDSM undertones is just down to personal interest.)
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