Writer's Block: Riddle me this
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Hey, Writer's Block tourists, you can skip this one: I don't get how people can misinterpret the plot of Lunar: The Silver Star so badly. There're a couple NPCs in Marke to explicitly hit the clueless over the head with a two-by-four ("Wow! So Ghaleon'd burned his creme brulee all along!" "If Ghaleon'd burned his creme brulee all along, why was he mad that Althena blew up the kitchen? He must've been known that Dyne'd just put in new countertops!"), there isn't one bit of surprise or shock in that meeting atop Myght's lab, there's always considerable emphasis both pre- and post-revelation on the injustice of being used and tossed aside, not simply killed... To say nothing of the plain bad storytelling involved - it makes no sense for the villain to be acting on misinformation and never once come to terms with his mistake.
TSS had an original conflict and motivation for its villain that fostered nuanced characterization on which the series - the good parts of the series that dealt with the matter - consequently built. It's something of which to be proud, and yet we're choosing to bury it for an idiotic oops-my-bad plotline. I just don't get it.
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Hey, Writer's Block tourists, you can skip this one: I don't get how people can misinterpret the plot of Lunar: The Silver Star so badly. There're a couple NPCs in Marke to explicitly hit the clueless over the head with a two-by-four ("Wow! So Ghaleon'd burned his creme brulee all along!" "If Ghaleon'd burned his creme brulee all along, why was he mad that Althena blew up the kitchen? He must've been known that Dyne'd just put in new countertops!"), there isn't one bit of surprise or shock in that meeting atop Myght's lab, there's always considerable emphasis both pre- and post-revelation on the injustice of being used and tossed aside, not simply killed... To say nothing of the plain bad storytelling involved - it makes no sense for the villain to be acting on misinformation and never once come to terms with his mistake.
TSS had an original conflict and motivation for its villain that fostered nuanced characterization on which the series - the good parts of the series that dealt with the matter - consequently built. It's something of which to be proud, and yet we're choosing to bury it for an idiotic oops-my-bad plotline. I just don't get it.
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Re: Spoilers for anyone else reading, naturally
Date: 2011-09-30 03:02 am (UTC)The TV Tropes thing confirms my suspicions that some people are just making up their own story as they go along. I will not be surprised if the fandom up and decides before long that the series is actually a multi-volume restaurant sim.
Re: Spoilers for anyone else reading, naturally
Date: 2011-09-30 03:45 am (UTC)Yes. That is exactly it. I know of a couple other fandoms that're like this. Are we even watching/playing the same thing?