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Well Written Bad Writing launched as Stylistic Suck Discussion: From YKTTW
Working Title: Well Written Bad Writing: From YKTTW
Haven: Took this bit out, since it's not (in-universe) fiction writing and isn't treated as terrible, meaning it's more just regular Bad Writing than stylistic suck.
- The writing of intrepid reporter "Buck" Williams in the Left Behind series is almost uniformly awful, which might be OK if he wasn't described as the greatest reporter ever in nearly every description.
macroscopic: This Heroes example just looks like a case of TV writers not being comicbook writers:
- Heroes has the "9th Wonders" comics, which chronicle the events of the show but are published before those events actually happen. Whenever pages of the comic are shown, they're exact recreations of scenes that just happened on the show, but in such a way that they make for an awful narrative in comic terms: Basically, they're exact recreations of extremely banal conversation scenes that work on the screen, but not so much in a comic. Cliffhangers also tend to happen in the middle of a conversation scene for no reason other than to create a challenge for the characters on the show, because the comic won't tell them what to do next. There seems to be no actual plot that ever goes anywhere. (In addition, even though several of the main characters are aware of the comic, none of them ever show any interest in regularly buying the comic, even though it predicts their inevitable fates.) The original writer/artist of "9th Wonders" was Isaac Mendez, who has the power to see into (and paint) the future, but he got killed in late season 1. It's unclear who's currently writing or drawing the comic.
- Apparently there was a backlog. Which seems unlikely.
- It would make a lot of sense if Isaac had simply prepared ahead before his death, seeing the future and making the comics that foretold far into the future, then having them released at specified intervals after his death. Of course, being Heroes, that's probably not what Isaac did.
- Actually, comics don't hit the stands until months after they're written and drawn, and the second season took place just a few months after the first one did, so it makes sense that Isaac's stories would still be published during the second season. And the comic was barely mentioned in the third, except for the sketchbook that Isaac gave the courier just before he was killed.
And from Aversions:
- The game-within-a-game of Cube's chapter in Live A Live, Captain Square. Cube's chapter contains no fighting, just walking and talking, so the mini-game actually consists of the entirety of all the battles in that chapter. The battles play out exactly the way normal battles do (with some extra strategy required).
- Not true. There IS one battle Cube himself takes direct part in against 0D-10
- And where did that take place?
- Not true. There IS one battle Cube himself takes direct part in against 0D-10
Someone familiar with Cube needs to clear this up (if it even belongs).
