(10-19-2016, 07:11 PM)Oli! Wrote: I would argue that style and content being near identical is not the issue, and that it is instead presented in your second paragraph: poor portrayal.
Media with identical style and content can still be interesting (see: self-referential and parody media).
I'd argue in kind that self-referential and parodical media tend to have significant, if subtle, differences in portrayal, and those are often present in the style being used.
Final Fantasy itself, as an extremely self-referential series, is a pretty good example of that - it constantly refers back to itself, but does so to greater or lesser effectiveness depending on style.
But for the sake of argument, if portrayal is a third axis of fiction, how would you see it as different from the other two elements?
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