| vivster said: I don't care about the character of a trap or what it does. I'm put off by the whole concept of purposefully deceiving the viewer. That's why I compared them with bad mystery stories. It's one thing to make a riddle and give clues about how to solve it but it's another to confront the audience with a lie that you would have no chance of finding out without the liar telling you himself. |
Once again, have you seen Stein's;gate? Because the first thing they tell you about the character is that he is a guy... I guess technically that disqualifies him as being a "trap" then maybe.
Still, I do think the character type can be done well. As much as I despise Haganai, the trap aspect was done fairly well, and it did give clues to allow you to figure it out beforehand and it did work well in the show's comedy...
I get what you mean when you say traps are like bad mystery stories, but I think a bad trap is like a bad mystery story, a good trap is something else entirely.
