idle thought #568

[madimpossibledreamer]

To elaborate on the thing with Ada I thought it would’ve been really cool to have her stringing Ethan along. It’d be neat if he wasn’t at all attracted to her even if she tried to be a little flirty at the beginning before dropping that, because she could still tell him ‘hey I can help you figure out what happened to your wife’ and he’d have to follow along. It’d be a good opportunity for characterization.
Instead we got that half-baked love-triangle?? between three people and if they all turned into zombies and died it’d basically be a Oh no! Anyway… situation for me. Maybe people are self-inserting? Maybe descriptors like ‘father’ are enough for them? I need characters with more meat to them, not stick figures.
The thing is, this isn’t even wrong. The writing works for some people, and that’s great. They didn’t want to do much with their characters, so they didn’t, and they did what they set out to do. But there’s a lot of people assuming that people all react to all stories the same or, again, that there’s a wrong way to do so. Just not my cup of tea.