And by "calm", I mean: Why in the bloody hell is she delivering a spontaneous monologue about her life with her parents after receiving news of their death?
I mean, are we supposed to infer that she's saying this between sobs or some shit?
If that's the case, then why in the hell weren't we given context clues as to this? Like her monologue being punctuated with some sniffs or sobs or her voice steadily breaking!?
Who in the FUCK would think this series is any good!?
Who in the FUCK would think this series is any good!?
I tried to ask Not-Neil-Honest on TVTropes about this, and all I got was a virtual shrug and that he had a Weirdness Censor for mistakes. Which explains why someone would overlook the ever-present spelling, punctuation, grammar and usage errors, but not how they could defend the characterisation. I say "characterisation" but nobody has much of a personality.
Indeed. Hermione had a more dramatic reaction to the deaths of two people she barely knew than Jamie did to the deaths of her parents. It's one of many things that unsettle me about the way characters behave in this fic. The whole "not quite right" thing.
It just boggles the mind that he had his perfect Mary Sue be calm and collected whereas Hermione broke down upon receiving the news.
I'd say that Neil was trying to portray Jamie as "superior" to Hermione, putting his OC "badass" over the Canon badass, but then Chapter 23 rolls around and he has Jamie score lower on her O.W.L.(whoops, I meant "Q.W.L.") than Hermione, putting her below Hermione in terms of sheer intelligence(that whole "Hermione's brains, Harry's heart, and NONE of the flaws" tripe).
It's almost as if he was jolting back and forth between two split personalities: One wanted to assassinate canon characters in favor of his speshul little flock of bints(er, I mean...Sues), while the other wanted to try and pay proper homage to the original characters that J.K. Rowling developed over the course of the series into a set of well-developed and likeable characters that we know and love...
Key word on "trying", though, as that wanker's sexism shines through throughout the whole goddamn series...
Szaleniec, you mentioned he didn't quite understand what a Mary Sue was at first?
I suspect the trope we're looking for is "Author's Saving Throw," as Neil briefly struggled to try and appease whoever told him he was writing a Sue before he just stopped caring.
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I mean, are we supposed to infer that she's saying this between sobs or some shit?
If that's the case, then why in the hell weren't we given context clues as to this? Like her monologue being punctuated with some sniffs or sobs or her voice steadily breaking!?
Who in the FUCK would think this series is any good!?
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Who in the FUCK would think this series is any good!?
I tried to ask Not-Neil-Honest on TVTropes about this, and all I got was a virtual shrug and that he had a Weirdness Censor for mistakes. Which explains why someone would overlook the ever-present spelling, punctuation, grammar and usage errors, but not how they could defend the characterisation. I say "characterisation" but nobody has much of a personality.
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I'd say that Neil was trying to portray Jamie as "superior" to Hermione, putting his OC "badass" over the Canon badass, but then Chapter 23 rolls around and he has Jamie score lower on her O.W.L.(whoops, I meant "Q.W.L.") than Hermione, putting her below Hermione in terms of sheer intelligence(that whole "Hermione's brains, Harry's heart, and NONE of the flaws" tripe).
It's almost as if he was jolting back and forth between two split personalities: One wanted to assassinate canon characters in favor of his speshul little flock of bints(er, I mean...Sues), while the other wanted to try and pay proper homage to the original characters that J.K. Rowling developed over the course of the series into a set of well-developed and likeable characters that we know and love...
Key word on "trying", though, as that wanker's sexism shines through throughout the whole goddamn series...
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I suspect the trope we're looking for is "Author's Saving Throw," as Neil briefly struggled to try and appease whoever told him he was writing a Sue before he just stopped caring.
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One second Jamie's Harry and Hermione without their flaws, the next she's actually inferior to the pair of them, and the next she's right back to it.
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