I think it may be a desire to return to a land of happy endings, actually . . . we tend to dislike them in our "realistic" fiction; in our new, enlightened cynicism (look, it's SARCASM, don't step in it) we dismiss them as "soft" "unrealistic" "stupid."
But happy endings and good and evil are still okay in fantasy, because it's all make believe anyway.
This is something that occurs to me at midnight, anyway. ^^
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