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deus ex machina is the weakness and the flaw in a story's climax much reviled by good writers everywhere. A way chosen by lazy and untalented writers to bring the story to a close. Read up more on the term and Aristotle's hatred of it in his book on Dramaturgy "Poetics".
Some heavy stuff there
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deus ex machina is the weakness and the flaw in a story's climax much reviled by good writers everywhere. A way chosen by lazy and untalented writers to bring the story to a close. Read up more on the term and Aristotle's hatred of it in his book on Dramaturgy "Poetics".
Well, I did understood Aristotle's hatred towards "an unsolvable problem solved in a sudden unexpected way", but it doesn't work in a fiction that's closer to reality. In a fictitious perfect world (or in a black hole), his views are perfect. :--D. I was once against this concept, but if the connections in a story that went beyond, which things became incomprehensible, it does need a deus ex machina :winky: A well executed story will fit in this technique in a good way, and a badly written story like "1942: a love story" or "Pearl harbour", the concept would seem absurd.
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