"Kill your darlings" only applies if you're holding onto something that actually hurts your story. But jerks sometimes use "kill your darlings" as a weapon to try to break you. Don't wantonly kill what you love the most about your story. That's why you're writing it. Make it work.
lately i’ve been seeing a ton of people *aggressively* failing to understand that “kill your darlings” is specifically about like.. that scene you really like that doesn’t actually add anything, ruins the flow, etc..
and sometimes you can’t keep *every* joke, even if they’re all funny!
On KYD: I think Terry Gilliam`s movies suffer a bit from him being an overly self-endulgent storyteller, who just can`t get out of his own way.
Every movie of his is like the Swedish ship "Gustav Wasa" - so overly ornate, and poorly trimmed, that it capsizes immediately upon deployment.
