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<blockquote data-quote="Celebrim" data-source="post: 7928043" data-attributes="member: 4937"><p>Power isn't a compelling motivation? Some people want to rule and dominate over others. Prior to our democratic systems of government and other checks and balances, this was a massive problem. What motivated the Norse to become the scourge of Europe? Were they just notable bad people? Or was murder, rape, and theft just a very attractive economic activity to engage in for young males without other prospects?</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>Got no answer to that. Absolutely nothing about Drow culture makes sense, even taking into account the capricious nature of the deity that conducts it. I don't think that it was designed with a lot of forethought. Just "bad guys" loosely inspired by spiders and the fact that spider females are larger and more dangerous than the males.</p><p></p><p></p><p></p><p>This could really just be turned into any "evil mastermind" discussion, as evil masterminds often behave in entirely stupid ways purely to jump through plot hoops, two of which are always going to have to be "the situation the heroes are in seems dire" and "the heroes win in the end". Any time you have a story structure that is known and you have a writer under a deadline that needs to paint by numbers the story structure, you are going to get a lot of fridge logic like you just described. "Cobra" itself is a solution to the same story constraint that needs to jump through both hoops without offending any real world political group - Cobra has to put the heroes in situations that seem dire, but also lose in every episode. Occasionally the writers subverted the tropes, including an episode where Cobra had to change tactics because it was bankrupt.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Celebrim, post: 7928043, member: 4937"] Power isn't a compelling motivation? Some people want to rule and dominate over others. Prior to our democratic systems of government and other checks and balances, this was a massive problem. What motivated the Norse to become the scourge of Europe? Were they just notable bad people? Or was murder, rape, and theft just a very attractive economic activity to engage in for young males without other prospects? Got no answer to that. Absolutely nothing about Drow culture makes sense, even taking into account the capricious nature of the deity that conducts it. I don't think that it was designed with a lot of forethought. Just "bad guys" loosely inspired by spiders and the fact that spider females are larger and more dangerous than the males. This could really just be turned into any "evil mastermind" discussion, as evil masterminds often behave in entirely stupid ways purely to jump through plot hoops, two of which are always going to have to be "the situation the heroes are in seems dire" and "the heroes win in the end". Any time you have a story structure that is known and you have a writer under a deadline that needs to paint by numbers the story structure, you are going to get a lot of fridge logic like you just described. "Cobra" itself is a solution to the same story constraint that needs to jump through both hoops without offending any real world political group - Cobra has to put the heroes in situations that seem dire, but also lose in every episode. Occasionally the writers subverted the tropes, including an episode where Cobra had to change tactics because it was bankrupt. [/QUOTE]
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