I have heard it described along these lines: “Crazy people for the most part aren’t feral animals going around acting on every little whim that occurs to them or having constant mood-swings, that’s just emotional incontinence and plenty of mentally healthy people can act like that too. Being crazy means having a hardwired flaw in your perception of reality, and attempting to navigate life with that distorted understanding.”
The best writers understand this and that’s why the best depictions of madness are never “lol wacky”.
As to the topic of Delirium; my first impression of her from years back was that Gaiman had utterly zero clue what to do with her, which should have been a clue that he was likely plagiarizing a formula rather. She didn’t even come off as crazy in the “cartoonish spastic random moron” sense, she was just a pretentious Art-Hoe that was overdoing LSD and MDMA over feeling bored.
OT but I remember you saying something about give my regards to black Jack, but I'm trying to decide if it's worth going back a hundred episodes. Any thoughts?
"Neil Gaiman: Dollar Store knockoff of Tanith Lee" should rightly be an Internet meme.
I have heard it described along these lines: “Crazy people for the most part aren’t feral animals going around acting on every little whim that occurs to them or having constant mood-swings, that’s just emotional incontinence and plenty of mentally healthy people can act like that too. Being crazy means having a hardwired flaw in your perception of reality, and attempting to navigate life with that distorted understanding.”
The best writers understand this and that’s why the best depictions of madness are never “lol wacky”.
As to the topic of Delirium; my first impression of her from years back was that Gaiman had utterly zero clue what to do with her, which should have been a clue that he was likely plagiarizing a formula rather. She didn’t even come off as crazy in the “cartoonish spastic random moron” sense, she was just a pretentious Art-Hoe that was overdoing LSD and MDMA over feeling bored.
OT but I remember you saying something about give my regards to black Jack, but I'm trying to decide if it's worth going back a hundred episodes. Any thoughts?