A few years ago I came into this concept about the plot of a story “slipping through” the fingers of the author, how they write and write and somehow along the way the plot becomes way to convoluted for them to untangle the mess they created. And I think that is the case with Jinx.
At some point I noticed how the story had ran away from the author and they were just trying to give us what they could. Like how the drama and messyness was so complex and toxic that we expected a big redemption arc but the author clearly didn’t have the skill to deliver that.
It almost seems like they wanted JK to be so unforgivable just so they could present us with a big emotional redemption but couldn’t create the situations to convince us to forgive him in the end. That is a skill that not many authors possess.
As an author, you cannot villanize your character and expect the audience to forgive them just because you would.
The ending is exactly what I expected when I noticed that the story had become too big for the author to improve. I expected mediocrity and they delivered.
A few years ago I came into this concept about the plot of a story “slipping through” the fingers of the author, how they write and write and somehow along the way the plot becomes way to convoluted for them to untangle the mess they created. And I think that is the case with Jinx.
At some point I noticed how the story had ran away from the author and they were just trying to give us what they could. Like how the drama and messyness was so complex and toxic that we expected a big redemption arc but the author clearly didn’t have the skill to deliver that.
It almost seems like they wanted JK to be so unforgivable just so they could present us with a big emotional redemption but couldn’t create the situations to convince us to forgive him in the end. That is a skill that not many authors possess.
As an author, you cannot villanize your character and expect the audience to forgive them just because you would.
The ending is exactly what I expected when I noticed that the story had become too big for the author to improve. I expected mediocrity and they delivered.