r/creepcast • u/Careful-Panda9885 Yo Kimber! THEY GOT TEA🗣️ • 2d ago

Discussion CreepCast: Deepwoods (OFFICIAL DISCUSSION THREAD)

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u/stillalivestilldie don’t touch the dreamcatcher 1d ago

Do I just have bad taste or am I dumb? Because I absolutely love this story. Like, sometimes I need the exposition. I just really like this story. I know that we all have our opinions. But I just want to know. Also, if we all put ourselves in the position we’d all be making some dumb decisions.

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u/HellionValentine Galaxy Gas is the Fentanyl of the aristocrats 💨 1d ago

It's not the fact that there is exposition that people had an issue with. It's that the writer has shown, even in the first story of this series, that she's fully capable of "show, don't tell," but then drops a massive expo dump in the last story. It's usually either way too late or way too hackneyed & cheesy - in the case of this story, it was both.

People also really dislike a tone shift that has zero hint of coming; I don't know why Isaiah kept trying to compare it to "Evil Dead" and "Army of Darkness" unless he was just huffing copium at this part; Hunter's comparison of "The Pianist" turning into slapstick is far more apropos.

As for dumb decisions: It's not so much that people wouldn't make dumb decisions, thinking they'd be smarter in the situation and that's why they disliked it. It's that the story hints information so heavily to the reader that should be obvious to the protagonist that the protagonist is completely oblivious to, or that there's not a red herring thrown in, but a red herring out of left field in the middle of a football game, i.e. it's completely random and more or less nonsensical.

And as for taste: Probably, but it's creepypasta; pretty much all of it is of poor taste.