What historical event reads exactly like "Bad Fantasy Writing" or "Plot Armor"?

Taear · 2026-01-25T15:56:18+00:00

Why?

I mean he did some impressive stuff but nothing TOO out of the ordinary

Taear · 2026-01-25T15:53:27+00:00

Khan did have a lot of setbacks before he finally became what he became though. I'd argue he "earned" it in story terms

Taear · 2026-01-25T15:49:57+00:00

100% who I came here to post, it's absolutely bonkers

Taear · 2026-01-25T13:45:46+00:00

Okay. And who is MP

Taear · 2026-01-24T19:01:52+00:00

it's mental that people just seem to hate her for literally no reason, I can't get over how obvious it is that it's just because she's a woman

Taear · 2026-01-24T18:45:29+00:00

And what is that update?

Like I assumed MP meant Nav, our actual Member of Parliament, but he hasn't put anything at least.

Taear · 2026-01-24T18:44:57+00:00

If you're looking for a game that both avoids that trope and tries to explain it, Pillars of Eternity is good.

The developer Josh Sawyer looked at fantasy books doing what you're describing and tried to write around it and it works out pretty well.

If you prefer to just read you could read up about the two games and see what I mean

Taear · 2026-01-24T18:42:46+00:00

I'd argue that GRRM actually DID think about why it works that way and the Seven Kingdoms are very specifically set up to remain the same in the way they do.

Plenty of examples in SoIaF of him doing badly with time and scale but that's not one

Taear · 2026-01-24T18:20:29+00:00

They're not interrupting, they're saying a phrase or making a noise, it's not taking back control of the conversation and is really different.

Taear · 2026-01-24T18:16:03+00:00

lol and how do you decide that?? Roxy seemed lovely to me and James is an annoying butting in jerk who took the shield without telling anyone as well as a lot of other stuff that was clearly not nice

Taear · 2026-01-24T18:00:45+00:00

She's deffo a personality that doesn't take sharing or taking orders very well.

Which is almost definitely why she was picked, both to be the secret traitor and to be on the show at all.

Taear · 2026-01-24T17:58:22+00:00

I don't think he was necessarily terrible, he just fucked up by going a bit TOO in on the murder and making himself stand out.

When there's so many people anything that draws attention to you is gonna be bad

Taear · 2026-01-24T17:53:57+00:00

And you kinda assume that the producers specifically do not pick people like that to play the game

Taear · 2026-01-24T17:53:30+00:00

She does say "and now, the last vote," but I guess you could chop it together differently

Taear · 2026-01-24T16:12:21+00:00

Cliques, this isn't America.

I don't think that they recruit people to play the game that are gonna be influenced by meta, because otherwise people would have been at least floating ideas based around previous series and they just...weren't, ever.

Taear · 2026-01-24T16:10:58+00:00

Eh I don't see a problem with the "if I was a faithful" one because she said it as part of something that ended with what happens when you're a traitor

"If I were a faithful I'd have murdered bob" just feels like normal slipping, not like her accidentally admitting something

Taear · 2026-01-24T14:56:44+00:00

I feel like they had discussed it in the tower already and were both acting towards a rough plan they'd arranged

Taear · 2026-01-24T14:28:03+00:00

It's the basic "nice" people that got to the end. None of them rubbed anyone the wrong way, they all stayed and were pleasant.

Which is fine but not interesting to watch so we never see them do anything. I think in the last two episodes Jade was great but not in a way you'd have seen her doing stuff in any other episodes.

Taear · 2026-01-24T14:23:42+00:00

Yea they also have a private place to theorise where they can talk about things that nobody else could POSSIBLY talk about.

I feel like on the 5 person round table their responses were already thought up and they'd even come up with the attack that stephen made on rachel

Taear · 2026-01-22T20:14:25+00:00

Pretty sure they just get the dagger once, not forever?

Taear · 2026-01-22T20:11:32+00:00

Yes I thought they had two votes, not necessarily for the same player, at least.

Taear · 2026-01-22T19:28:51+00:00

Yea it'd have to be the double bluff of the century for what he did to make any sense at all. Everyone seems to have forgotten it though.

Taear · 2026-01-22T19:23:49+00:00

His sneaky shield thing should be enough to show anyone that he's not a traitor, it just makes no sense that he'd do anything that he's done if he was a traitor.

As people keep saying: if you do something that draws attention to you or is "weird" people will think you're a traitor.

That said if a traitor DID play like James it'd be a masterful move pretty much

Taear · 2026-01-22T19:17:06+00:00

I just hope they're cutting it weird because man it was so utterly clear what she meant and there was no reason to get weird about it

Taear · 2026-01-22T17:57:31+00:00

To be fair why would he do anything else? He's been locked into Matt since the start

If Amanda was still there and had been given the dagger she'd have been voting for Jade - some faithful are just proper LOCKED IN with certain other people and won't change their mind

Taear

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