DonFerrari said:
Darc Requiem said:
Sorry, I don't visit this forum much anymore. The warrior I mentioned is a hypothetical. If I write a book and say a character, let's call him Bob, is a peerless warrior. I have Bob participate in a half dozen, one on one, duels throughout the course of the book. Bob only wins one of them. The audience, despite my intentions, is not going to share my view of the character. I, as a writer, did poor job conveying Bob's skill to the audience. I could have written Bob in a way that, even with him losing five out of the six confrontations, he still comes across as peerless warrior. I could change the combat scenario from duels to Bob facing down multiple highly skilled opponents. This would, in defeat, show his skill. The audience would see that it took unbalanced odds to defeat him. I could add some extenuating circumstance. I could have Bob be left handed and break his left arm early on in the story. He fist battle would be a crushing defeat due to having to use his off hand. Over the course of the book, he could still lose five fights, but in each battle would get closer and closer to victory. Leading to a final confrontation with the antagonist where he defeats him in single combat with his off hand. Often in a story it isn't what happens but how it happens. If you want things to happen in a certain way, you need to have events play out in a plausible manner. You can't have nonsensical events play out just because. You can't have a character, without reasonable explanation, act in a way contrary to how they've been presented to the reader/viewer/player thus far. |
Sure, your example makes sense, but you do know it is a very big exaggeration that doesn't fit. It isn't as if TLOU2 have show a scenario that makes 0 sense. |
The example was basic to on purpose. I could have crafted the character. Written out him out in detail, not conveyed to you what I thought the character was supposed to be, and then pointed how your perception of him is not what I intended. That would have been long, time consuming, and convoluted way to make the same point.
As for your thoughts on TLOU2's writings. Not everyone see's it the same way as you do. I'm not attached to the franchise and from a writer's, albeit an amateur one, perspective I found it to be poor. I saw what they were going for, I just thought it was executed badly. Like the last season of Game of Thrones, it wasn't the events that occurred it was how they occurred.
