Eneasz Brodsky

But I,

I think I've come to accept over the last few years that not all stories are about that.

Some stories can have no character growth in them at all, and it doesn't matter because that's not what the story is about.

It's trying to do something different.

And so I think also part of Alexander Wales' story was it was still in the mindset of there is no character arc, therefore this story has failed.

And I don't think that's necessarily true.

And yeah, all that together made it very hard to figure out what is the theme of methods of rationality?

Why do we love it?

What is the important thing it's doing here?

And then William figured it out.

So that's what we're here for.

But I agree with Alexander Wales and with every other essay I read that it didn't do the things...

And that made it feel unsatisfying whenever you tried to analyze it.

But it's not because it didn't do anything.

It's just because we didn't see the thing it was actually doing.

It was so integral to the story and speaking to our souls rather than to our brains that we loved it because of what it was doing, even though we couldn't put into words and recognize what it was doing.

Does that make sense?

the the allure of the ring and being tainted by it and then kind of turning back into the person that he was at the beginning of the book at the beginning of the story and i'm going from the movies not i haven't read the books i actually have also not read the books because i'm a very bad nerd um i've started them right now in fact i'm 100 pages in the first book that's about as far as i made it i

I want to argue with you about this, but then that would be the episode.

And so I think we should get back to Harry Potter instead.