There’s a big difference from rigging in some games and fiction where it is always rigged by design. Yes watching sports is filled with ads but the game itself wasn’t preplanned in a writer’s room to sell ads for the next game.
I disagree with the premise, any good work of fiction will be far less predictable than any sport could possibly be. One of the participants will win within the predetermined time using predetermined rules and variables, the rest will lose. Maaaaybe some people might tie every now and then. Unless you’re into like boxing or racing, then someone might die. But even that’s predictable enough to be a main draw for plenty of more casual fans, and it morally taints the whole sport imo.
Again, fiction isn’t “rigged” for the real people involved in making it. As a screenwriter, there’s no guarantee anything you write will even get read, much less greenlit, filmed, edited, sold, released, and watched. And the same goes, to one degree or another, for every person (actually) working on every project. Ever counted the names in a modern movie credit roll?
Not to mention, storylines are written all the time in sports. Have you seen the Olympics? This last one felt like every 10 minutes there was a fully written, produced, biographical segment with baby pictures and voiceover and emotional music, followed by 5 seconds of sport. And it wasn’t really doing the athletes any favors. That Ilia Malinin kid practically had a psychic break on international television, they had built so much pressure on him with that “quad god” narrative that he could never live up to it. There’s even an academic study that claims empirical evidence showing “that postseason officiating disproportionately favors the Mahomes-era Kansas City Chiefs, coinciding with the team’s emergence as a key driver of TV viewership/ratings and, thereby, revenue.” Basically, the more the NFL financially depended on the storyline of Mahome’s Chiefs, the more the refs, seemingly subconsciously, let them get away with in postseason games. And the most expensive advertising slot in the world is during a football game. The fact of the matter is, in a capitalist world, it’s all to sell ads. But that’s a different discussion I guess, lol.
Anyway, I still don’t see how any of this plays into fans of one somehow adding more value to society, or themselves, than fans of another.
There’s a big difference from rigging in some games and fiction where it is always rigged by design. Yes watching sports is filled with ads but the game itself wasn’t preplanned in a writer’s room to sell ads for the next game.
I disagree with the premise, any good work of fiction will be far less predictable than any sport could possibly be. One of the participants will win within the predetermined time using predetermined rules and variables, the rest will lose. Maaaaybe some people might tie every now and then. Unless you’re into like boxing or racing, then someone might die. But even that’s predictable enough to be a main draw for plenty of more casual fans, and it morally taints the whole sport imo.
Again, fiction isn’t “rigged” for the real people involved in making it. As a screenwriter, there’s no guarantee anything you write will even get read, much less greenlit, filmed, edited, sold, released, and watched. And the same goes, to one degree or another, for every person (actually) working on every project. Ever counted the names in a modern movie credit roll?
Not to mention, storylines are written all the time in sports. Have you seen the Olympics? This last one felt like every 10 minutes there was a fully written, produced, biographical segment with baby pictures and voiceover and emotional music, followed by 5 seconds of sport. And it wasn’t really doing the athletes any favors. That Ilia Malinin kid practically had a psychic break on international television, they had built so much pressure on him with that “quad god” narrative that he could never live up to it. There’s even an academic study that claims empirical evidence showing “that postseason officiating disproportionately favors the Mahomes-era Kansas City Chiefs, coinciding with the team’s emergence as a key driver of TV viewership/ratings and, thereby, revenue.” Basically, the more the NFL financially depended on the storyline of Mahome’s Chiefs, the more the refs, seemingly subconsciously, let them get away with in postseason games. And the most expensive advertising slot in the world is during a football game. The fact of the matter is, in a capitalist world, it’s all to sell ads. But that’s a different discussion I guess, lol.
Anyway, I still don’t see how any of this plays into fans of one somehow adding more value to society, or themselves, than fans of another.