Dumb heroes and heroines

[wombat_socho]

ursulav contemplates literature and its lack of stupid people among the ranks of heroes and heroines. Her task is complicated by misunderstanding the Bertie Wooster stories, in which Bertie supplies the POV but the real hero is invariably Jeeves. I mean, Wodehouse had this down to a formula: Bertie has a problem, usually inflicted by one of his annoying

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[harvey_rrit]

Movies, not so much.

[wombat_socho]

Are they genuinely dumb heroes, or just average people stuck with the Idiot Ball by the all-powerful scriptwriter?

[harvey_rrit]

By the WHAT?

Know why fiction sells? It's better than real life. This is because fiction is controlled by a writer, while real life only has a Director.

This is also why real life has too many explosions and a lame plot, and the star is the Director's girlfriend's illegitimate son.

[wombat_socho]

Boy, you're bound and determined to ruin all my delusions, aren't you?

Also, proof to the contrary: Harlan Ellison. Did he EVER write anything that was better than real life? A lot of things WORSE, but I can't recall anything better, at least not off the top of my head. Oh wait, I forgot that episode of Star Wars he wrote. [/Penny Arcade reference]

[harvey_rrit]

I said better, not more fun. (Although his stuff I read as a kid was of a decidedly cheerier cast than my life at the time.)

Whisky Tango Foxtrot STAR WARS?

[wombat_socho]

It may have been one of the few times in his life Mr. Ellison had no snappy comeback.