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I thought I was the only one who thought that dystopia was getting overdone. I remember an old science fiction story where a man travels to the future, and sees that the world of the future is a nightmare. He comes back and instead of telling people that the future is a nightmare, he tells that that it is a paradise. And the people then go out and build that paradise. I think there needs to be a balance. When things are in unrest, that is when we need something more optimistic, and when things are looking pretty good, that's when we need something that is more cautionary. That way, it keeps us from falling into the twin traps of complacency and despair. I have grown tired of the phrase "gritty realism", because it may be gritty, but it isn't very realistic. Most people's reality doesn't look anything like the so-called "gritty realism".
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