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I was at the library in my old neighborhood and saw a whole new shelf for 'found family' stories.
It made me think about how we used to just call them good books about friends. Has anyone read a good one lately that really got that feeling right?
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kai_west13d ago
Yeah, that label is everywhere now. It's not just books, it's the main plot for half the new TV shows. Feels like we're all so isolated that we need a special category to sell us the idea of people just sticking together.
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williams.holly13d ago
Totally get that. It's wild how fast "found family" went from a real feeling to a marketing box to check. Feels cheap now, like they're just slapping it on any group of characters who don't hate each other by the final episode. The good stories show the work, the fights, and the boring Tuesday nights, not just the big dramatic hugs.
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brookepark12d ago
The 2004 Battlestar Galactica reboot did it right. The crew was a found family, but they constantly betrayed each other's trust over water rationing and Cylon detectors. The bond only worked because we saw them nearly break it every week. Now a show just needs two characters to share a sad look and the promo calls it a family. It skips all the hard parts that make it mean something.
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