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So, I don't want to make this topic overly serious. I'm more thinking about when you are reading a book and you see this one thing describing a character and you just roll your eyes. Not necessarily looking for what seriously makes a character bad, just more small irks. Maybe it's something you've just seen too many times, or maybe it's something that never made sense to you, or maybe it's something that just grinds your gears a little tiny bit for whatever reason. I don't mean to make a topic that is actually negative or disparaging to any one or any book out there, I more just thought it would be fun to say, hey, here's one weird thing that always bugged me.
My one, or at least the one I just noticed in something today, is when a character is good at one skill because they are good at one other unrelated skill. Like, when a chess player is a master strategist in real life, or when a poker player is an expert negotiator, or when an actor just happens to know Shakespeare by heart, or that slew of "odd genius" tv shows from the 2000s where the main character knew everything about anything they needed to know about. Bones, House, Monk, Sherlock...that's kinda what I mean. Like, when Dr. House fixes a car engine with his bare hands I'm thinking, wait, did we cover this or are we just chalking this up to universal genius?
My one, or at least the one I just noticed in something today, is when a character is good at one skill because they are good at one other unrelated skill. Like, when a chess player is a master strategist in real life, or when a poker player is an expert negotiator, or when an actor just happens to know Shakespeare by heart, or that slew of "odd genius" tv shows from the 2000s where the main character knew everything about anything they needed to know about. Bones, House, Monk, Sherlock...that's kinda what I mean. Like, when Dr. House fixes a car engine with his bare hands I'm thinking, wait, did we cover this or are we just chalking this up to universal genius?