Re:Intellectual Loneliness
by gokdisjtrdcvv5 on Saturday January 01, 2022 @02:06AM
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I’ve done the same but with TV! My all time favorite TV show is “The 100”. It’s incredibly dumb and has so many plot holes it’s honestly amazing. However it never gets boring! Really would recommend it if you like that kind of stuff.
I hear that L Ron Hubbard's writing is spectacularly terrible
Same, but my genre has become terrible historical romance. I get many groans of enjoyment from the terrible similes (no, you can't compare what she's experiencing to that; it wasn't invented for another 150 years), the inaccuracies, and being able to plot the whole thing within the first 10 pages mostly accurately.
These books give me hope I could write a book.
"Oh my god, they're not going to do predictable thing __X__ are they? Bwahaha"
"Hahahaha, this dialog is completely unbelievable"
"Welp, that unwinds all the interesting things happening in that character's arc."
A couple things that laughter can't even redeem:
- Incessant deus ex machina. The prose can be good, the dialog believable, the world interesting, and the characters likable... but if all the problems just get waved away in some random unpredictable way, that's infuriating.
- Even worse: when a POV character has an ace up their sleeve the entire time that could have been played at any point to avoid all the conflict, and the only reason why we're in suspense is that POV character didn't share that with us.