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Message: <blockquote data-quote="FireLance" data-source="post: 2641724" data-attributes="member: 3424">It's my personal thesis that a lot of what a person finds to be logical, reasonable and believable depends very much on the types of fantasy they were exposed to as a child. Growing up as I did in Singapore, I watched many Chinese martial arts (wuxia) television serials, so I became used to the idea that highly skilled individuals could do many incredible stunts, like fly through the air, land on a leaf floating on water and jump off again (or do so on nothing but the surface of the water itself), blast energy from their hands, decapitate an opponent at a distance with the infamous flying guillotine (a weapon that looked like a bag on the end of a chain), etc. Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon is actually quite tame when it comes to what its heroes are capable of doing. Even that scene in Hero where Nameless deflects hundreds and thousands of arrows is rather old hat. With this kind of background, I guess my approach to fantasy is "Nothing is impossible, given sufficient skill and training."On the other hand, someone whose primary fantasy influences are Conan and The Lord of the Rings might have an approach to fantasy that puts more severe limitations on what is humanly possible.</blockquote>