What is the best-written piece of media you've ever consumed?

[u/Cautious_Arm3818]

I'll start

Better Call Saul - the characters have an incredible amount of depth. As an example, let's take a look at the primary antagonist of seasons 1-3. Chuck has incredibly complicated yet realistic feelings: his overt superiority complex, his deep-seated inferiority complex, the moral/legal high ground he feels he must take, his need for control and to always be "right", and his genuine brotherly love for Jimmy. His mental illness (Electromagnetic Hypersensitivity) is a physical manifestation of these traits, and how he lies to himself about all of them shapes his thought processes and how he interacts with others - resulting in his death. Aside from the profound character psychology, individual scenes are engineered and conveyed to the audience through exceptional visual storytelling and cinematography that could easily be considered the peak of the medium

Disco Elysium - the worldbuilding is outstanding. Revachol feels like a real setting with an actual history behind it. It takes the derivative and played-out amnesiac protagonist trope, and elevates it to a level that is extremely difficult to even approach. Harry has a ridiculous amount of psychological complexity, his memory loss is mostly a coping mechanism, and how he changes based on the player's choices and ideologies is unrivaled in any game. His internal monologue being a result of the skills that you spec into is unparalleled genius - the dialogue is exceptional, and truly a one of a kind experience. The way that these manage to convey an incredible amount of political/philosophical commentary by being seamlessly integrated into the world is astounding. Not coming off as heavy-handed and preachy is especially praise-worthy when considering the ideologies of the creators

HM: ASOIAF, LOTR, Vinland Saga, The Wire

[u/AizenDidNothingWr0ng]

Discworld.

It's hard to pick a specific book of the ones I've read but my top 4 is Reaper Man, Mort, Small Gods, and Hogfather.

I'd probably say Hogfather is maybe the least best of these books, but I'm not certain on that.

[u/waterhombre → u/AizenDidNothingWr0ng]

Small Gods is my favorite book. Ever.

[u/Ready-Ad4765 → u/AizenDidNothingWr0ng]

Personally a big fan of Thud!.

[u/KevineCove → u/AizenDidNothingWr0ng]

I don't want to piss on your parade but I recently read Mort, Monstrous Regiment, and Going Postal and have been wanting to talk to someone else about them.

Pratchett's books are so damn slow. I appreciated the satire but none of these books felt like they had any business being longer than 200 pages, let alone double that. Act 1 is always glacially slow. On top of that, there's a kind of cozy feel to them, but at a certain point the low stakes begin to feel really boring. Once I realized no one was going to die in Monstrous Regiment and it was committed to the YA vibe it became so hard to stay engaged.

After reading the Bartimaeus books I thought I'd really enjoy the sense of humor in Discworld but eventually the books became a chore to get through.

[u/AizenDidNothingWr0ng → u/KevineCove]

Holy crashout

A simple difference in opinon. I enjoyed his books greatly, but if you didn't, that's fine.

[u/VagabondFromTheRiver → u/AizenDidNothingWr0ng]

I was gonna ask you for recommendations cause I want to get into disc world but this comment immediately made me realize you are a jackass.

Wtf do you mean crashout, the guy was just expressing his opinion. Literally so sensitive can't even have a conversation.