• FuglyDuck
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    184 days ago

    For the record, Deus ex Machina is more a specific literary device- literally a crane lowering a god to save the protagonist in Roman and Greek dramas.

    To be fair they were more interested in telling a moral than being a good story. But the whole hanging-actor thing was meant to say they were a god and could just wave problems away. (Apparently literally.)

    • EvilHaitianEatingYourCat
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      64 days ago

      they were more interested in telling a moral than being a good story

      So… Literally Netflix