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7/5/2025, 10:44:32 PM
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Hard agree. The initial premise of Rudy adjusting to another world/life is where the interesting character writing is. Something most modern adventure stories gloss like the very worst of the old stranger in the strange land pulp fantasies. That premise carries farther than just the initial novels but it does run its course.
The problem is once the initial premise is mostly resolved he really has nothing new that's compelling to write for the character. Most people defending the novels focus on things like
>well he earned it
>well he grew
But that has nothing to do with the price of eggs. In the end you're just writing someone who's become boring. They stay boring. The process of how they became boring is itself interesting. To be boring, whether it's justified in your mind or not, is besides the point. In the end they've just become boring.
Hard agree. The initial premise of Rudy adjusting to another world/life is where the interesting character writing is. Something most modern adventure stories gloss like the very worst of the old stranger in the strange land pulp fantasies. That premise carries farther than just the initial novels but it does run its course.
The problem is once the initial premise is mostly resolved he really has nothing new that's compelling to write for the character. Most people defending the novels focus on things like
>well he earned it
>well he grew
But that has nothing to do with the price of eggs. In the end you're just writing someone who's become boring. They stay boring. The process of how they became boring is itself interesting. To be boring, whether it's justified in your mind or not, is besides the point. In the end they've just become boring.
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