Well, you were a kid. At the time that would have been fun for you and was likely good writing for your skill level at the time. You're just more skilled now, which is in part because younger you honed it by practising.
@Falconer: Yeah, when something starts to fall into a very preset formula to maintain the same number of characters or the same issue arises again and again and again... you get bored of it.
Shows where deaths remain impactful keep them very limited and far between so that when there were near death situations you were actually terrified they might die but they might not. When it is practically guaranteed you just go 'eh'.
@TerrytheTeryx: Preach. This is part of why shows like say Supernatural or The Walking Dead don't appeal to me and how Doctor Who eventually wore down my interest in it. Unless this is a murder mystery, characters dropping like flies... tends to eventually induce apathy. Doctor Who was able to keep my interest for far longer because the number of main characters to lose was minimal but even then, oh look the companion was only here for a few seasons and now they are gone (for varied reasons, not always death) eventually set in apathy towards it.
@Falconer: Tbh it is honestly starting to feel like millenials didn't just inherit financial hell but also 'crumbling temple disease' which I have just made up where we all feel old in our twenties because our bodies are literally crumbling into nothing probably due to all the stress.
Literally me last night because I was sick and still am but all my thoughts were racing while trying to sleep and it was like, 'is this what mania feels like, please turn it off, I just want to sleep' and like, there was always a bit of leg or arm getting circulation cut off and it was not good.
Not feeling as bad today, but I'm honestly hoping to be better tomorrow.
This is literally what happens when someone tells me they feel depressed. Hyperempathy ACTIVATE. *Now feels more depressed than them for the entire day*