• spittingimage@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    You’re looking for opinions? I got opinions.

    • The Chosen One who gets dragged around like a sack of potatoes until they Come Into Their Own and go on to Turn The Tide.

    • The Wise Yet Enigmatic Sage.

    • The Sharp-Tongued Princess.

    • The Rogue With A Heart of Gold.

    • Plots based on misunderstanding ancient prophecies that are so vaguely written they could be cookie recipes.

    • Gods that slot into neat roles on a godly table of elements.

    • Magic systems so detailed and prosaic you may as well call them technology.

    • Elves that are exactly like every other elf character you’ve ever read about except for one glaring but superficial difference which is there to make you think the author’s not plagiarising their own favourite author.

    • Frozengyro@lemmy.world
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      1 year ago

      Me reading the wheel of time:

      • The Chosen One ✓ the main male characters, but definitely Rand

      • The Wise Yet Enigmatic Sage ✓Moiraine

      • The Sharp-Tongued Princess. ✓Nynaeve

      • The Rogue With A Heart of Gold. ✓Mat

      • Plots based on misunderstanding ancient prophecies that are so vaguely written they could be cookie recipes. ✓All the prophecies

      • Gods that slot into neat roles on a godly table of elements. ✓The forsaken all having distinct methods to get to the top

      • Magic systems so detailed and prosaic you may as well call them technology. ✓The one power

      • Elves ✓Warders

      All that said, I’m still enjoying the series thus far.

  • Passerby6497@lemmy.worldEnglish
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    1 year ago

    I absolutely hate the trope where they start out with something interesting and have to do a flashback to the parts that led up to it. Like I just had that happen with a sequel to a book I was reading, and I’m really struggling to get started. I fucking hate the

    *cold open to something dramatic happening*

    Record scritch “I bet you’re wondering how I got here. Well, it all started…”

    bullshit trope and its really hard for me to look past some times.

  • z00s@lemmy.world
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    1 year ago

    Just finished watching The 100 on Netflix. The writing was pretty terrible.

    • Literally every bad action performed by a character (up to and including genocide) was justified as “I had no choice”. They should have called it, “The no choice show”. I would have loved to have seen a counter in the corner of the screen that ticked up every time that was said, which was at least once per episode.

    • Seconds before any kind of solution that would have solved major problems was enacted, a character (different each time)- previously rational, but now for some reason completely chaotic- would jump in and destroy the McGuffin and fuck everyone over because it was in their personal interest. Every single fucking time, even in the final episode. It’s no longer a plot twist, it’s just lazy AF writing. It also meant that the characters had no consistency or predictability of motive, which meant their believability went down the toilet.

    I’m going to stop there but believe me, that’s the tip of the iceberg.

    That show was proof that Netflix will greenlight just about anything.