I love how he thought beating Romney was supposed to spur on the Superior Future.
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It does go to show how much of a useful idiot Bob is. He hated Romney in 2012 because he was the GOP candidate, but now "loves" (or at least tolerates) him in 2018 because he is the establishment-picked candidate. It really is not that different from how he raves about anything Disney drops on his plate.
In regards to Bob's creative "talents," he only knows how to deconstruct narratives (and he does not it THAT very well either.) I picture with as a spastic who smashes
a pirate LEGO set with the grace of a wrecking ball and builds a half-assed space ship from the pieces. He has no clue of how to construct or reconstruct a story nor does he know how to create engaging or relatable characters. Remember how he was pushing for a female Link a few years back? His only argument was, "OMG! Link's now a woman!" and never explained how it would make the character interesting. Never mind the fact that Link, like Bob's beloved Mario, was always a player avatar with no personality traits to make the experience more immersive.
If he tries to argue, "B-B-But the animated series!" I would say: a) they are shit, b) nearly three decades old, and c) they are non-canon as far as Nintendo is concerned.
Another thing I have noticed is Bob's disdain and borderline hostility towards the "Hero's Journey" as a storytelling framework. It has worked for centuries for a reason and there is a great deal of scholarship behind it. Just look at Joseph Campbell's
Hero With a Thousand Faces and anything from Northrop Frye as an example. Granted, I think Campbell is too cerebral for Bob's walnut brain, but the man studied legends from dozens of cultures and found common threads between them. Additionally, Campbell's work served as partial inspiration for the original
Star Wars trilogy and explains why it is just as relevant today as it was four decades ago.
The most Bob is capable of is regurgitating half-digested themes and motifs from 80s popular culture to make meandering and tedious "stories" with boring self-inserts as the heroes and try to pass it off as "subversive." No, Bob, it is simply bad storytelling. He can dismiss the Hero's Journey as a "Chosen One" cliche (of which it is not), but he never put in the intellectual legwork to actually understand how narrative works nor does he appreciate themes, motifs, and tropes. He sees everything from within an inflexible ideological framework so I expect any pitch or proposal he makes to end up in the shredder.
