@magenof If main characters of every story ever made smart, well-informed decisions, there'd be zero conflict/drama/intrigue to make the overall story interesting.
Imagine how boring Jurassic Park would've been if John Hammond originally said to Ian Malcolm, "yeah, that's a great point, Ian. Our planned theme park with living cloned dinosaurs is a terrible idea, because trying to control nature is pure hubris and arrogance. Thanks, you just saved me a bunch of money, and my life!"
there'd be zero conflict/drama/intrigue to make the overall story interesting.
Bad decisions have to be justified through their characterization. Otherwise, it's just lazy writing.
Lucy tries to justify her naivety because of her sheltered life in the vault, but personally I'm not sold. This is not how cult victims behave when they enter the outside world.
@digital_phreaker When Maximus brands the other guy why doesn't he think to reveal who he is before branding him rather than after. Maximus is so stupid that I keep wishing he'd get killed off but I'm pretty sure we are supposed to be rooting for him. This episode was his least stupid by far as every time he appears he makes big choices that don't seem logically motivated. If he made more reasonable choices things can still go horribly wrong it just requires more intelligent script writing. Why did Lucy just happen upon him at all let alone a few moments before he was going to die? They could have easily foreshadowed aspects of the story that would make sense of them passing through the same area then if they wanted to have her turn up in such convenient timing it would be tolerable in as much as it's a typical trope that's used. The Last of Us is a much better show with a very different, more serious tone and it doesn't rely on the characters being complete morons to create some kind of easy tension. This show should lean into the comedy more so that the silly writing makes more sense.
@magenof So they act like your average human.
@magenof I thought this myself a lot of times, but this show is one of those instances where my immersion was not affected. I did not do this myself, but I know what happens when you play with a character with low intelligence in the game. So I saw this as a node to that. Maximus is a low intelligence character.
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The main characters make such stupid mistakes at every turn, do they learn nothing? I’m liking the little brother’s story the most because I feel the characters and story are actually progressing.