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05-05-2014, 09:17 AM
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Oh shit I forgot a big one. The fact characters don't die unless you explicitly see them bleed out and pronounced dead on camera, otherwise they come back in increasingly stupid ways.

This later becomes a habit of the main writer.
This is increasingly becoming a problem in almost all fiction, and I'm kind of sick of it. One of the more blatant ones that sticks out in my mind are the Game of Thrones books. He kills off an absurd amount of important characters (this is fine. It's war. People die in wars), but if you don't explicitly see the death happen, or if it stops short of showing the body after death, it's almost guaranteed that this person is either still alive, or is coming back by magical means. See Jon Snow, Tyrion, Stannis, and Bran, just to name a few.
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