What keeps you loving Life is Strange, Flaws and all
Life is Strange has more than its fair share of problems, tired tropes, and slow-moving segments, yet so many of us still love this game.
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Fiction has the ability to convey a million different ideas to a million different people. Here, we understand stories as not only what it tried to be, but what it means to us, and what it could be in the future. Learn how far the concept of capturing a scene can be pushed by some of the greatest minds in history and some of the most forward-thinking people who shaped history within the last century and gave us the modern world as it is.
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Sparsh Sharma
- Dec 29, 2021
- 4 min
Attack on Titan: Freedom, Power and Hypocrisy
Attack on Titan's central themes of freedom and power cause Eren to take a drastic change in its final season.
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Sparsh Sharma
- Dec 7, 2021
- 5 min
Attack on Titan: One Life
There are few shows that highlight the difficult choice of weighing one life against another better than Attack on Titan.
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Sparsh Sharma
- Nov 19, 2021
- 6 min
The Central Relationship: Hugging It Out
It is important for writers to establish their central relationships, including the friends, the mentors and the rival.
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Sparsh Sharma
- Nov 4, 2021
- 5 min
The Avatar, The Firelord and The Throne that Corrupts
The duality between our two protagonist and within Zuko himself is further put to test through the tale of Roku and Sozin.
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Sparsh Sharma
- Oct 8, 2021
- 5 min
Undying Optimism Veiling Tragedy
An exploration into optimism as a coping mechanism.
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Sparsh Sharma
- Oct 4, 2021
- 6 min
Life is Strange: True Colors and the Minefield of Emotions
Life is Strange has been particularly adept at tugging at your heartstrings. Now, they've cut the middlemen.
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Sparsh Sharma
- Sep 25, 2021
- 7 min
Avatar and The Dysfunctionality of Fatherhood
War is hardly a place where parenting becomes easier, and it gave one of the finest show ever made a deeper thematic layer.
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Sparsh Sharma
- Sep 17, 2021
- 7 min
How Motivation Changes the Meaning of a Story
The delicate art of subversion includes changing the meaning of the story through a simple revelation of motivation.
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Sparsh Sharma
- Sep 1, 2021
- 25 min
The Last of Us: Processing Grief (Ellie)
We have seen regression and we have seen self-destructive loathing, but how does Ellie react to her systemic losses?
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Sparsh Sharma
- Aug 27, 2021
- 11 min
The Last of Us: Processing Grief (Abby)
Instead of grief being resolved through attachment, how does resolution through identity work?
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Sparsh Sharma
- Aug 22, 2021
- 8 min
The Last of Us: Processing Grief (Joel)
How far can grief get us to go along with immorality?
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Sparsh Sharma
- Aug 2, 2021
- 6 min
The Anti-Hero Reimagined as a Villain
Rather than seeing an anti-hero in a purely sympathetic light, what if we acknowledged the moral complexity of simply existing and justice?
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Sparsh Sharma
- Jun 21, 2021
- 4 min
Life is Strange and the Lineage of Corruption
There are a few big players who make Arcadia Bay a city of sinners to be purged by a storm.
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Sparsh Sharma
- Jun 16, 2021
- 5 min
Arrested Development: Perfection in Sitcom
There is no better way to understand and study sitcom than with the greatest one ever made.
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Sparsh Sharma
- Jun 12, 2021
- 5 min
Life Is Strange: A Pictorial Definition
Can a single still image for each of the Life is Strange game capture the theme?
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Sparsh Sharma
- May 20, 2021
- 3 min
Bojack Horseman: Forgiveness and lack thereof
Redemption and Forgiveness is a concept few can tackle as well as Bojack Horseman did.
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Sparsh Sharma
- Apr 20, 2021
- 5 min
Thematic Rounding-Out (And when not to do it)
Some endings should round out the beginning of the show. Some shouldn't.
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Sparsh Sharma
- Jan 25, 2021
- 4 min
Soul: Narrating Through Music
Using musical notes to transcend the power of words is not an easy task to accomplish, but one director manages to do so over-and-over.
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Sparsh Sharma
- Jan 1, 2021
- 5 min
The Anatomy of a Mentor
Writing a flawed mentor is not an easy task in context of a flowing narrative, so let's appreciate a few who got it right.
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