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I remember when I was in high school, my English teacher was extremely Catholic and spent an entire class period talking about how he saw the Exorcist and it scared him so badly he couldn't sleep well for weeks.
And it was the scariest movie ever made.
And then years later, I watched the Exorcist and did not find it even the tiniest bit scary.
I found it a little bit silly.
And so it's just like there's no objective scary and there's no objective weird.
They are responses that happen when the audience interacts with the piece.
Yeah, I always feel like weird is a catch all phrase to kind of describe something that just like.
And sometimes I feel like I use weird to describe something that I don't quite know how to describe, you know, because it lacks the standard archetypes maybe, or it lacks the standard genre or subgenre to classify it in.
You know, I might watch a TV show and people say, well, what's the OA about?
Like, that's weird, man.
I mean, it's weird.
It's a, it's a weird show.
It's time travel and some dance and it's kind of a drama and think it's weird.
It's weird.
You should just check it out.
And yeah, it feels like a catch all when I don't have a simple thing of like, oh, it's a, it's a police procedural or, oh, it's a, it's a funny teen romantic comedy or something.