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<blockquote data-quote="Crimson Longinus" data-source="post: 8382890" data-attributes="member: 7025508">I'm sure different people feel differently about this. But to me such inconsistencies draw the attention to the artificiality of all it and lessen my immersion. Can the hero do the thing? Depends on how it is easiest to write the story. And sure, it is ultimately all made up, but keeping things consistent helps to pretend it is real and makes the perils feel more real. It allows us to pretend the success is due the skills, power and cunning of the hero and forget it is actually due the whims of the writer.In more realistic real world setting we automatically know a lot of things. We know that humans can be threatened by guns and that they cannot stop a speeding car by bare hands. But this may not be the case in more fantastic setting, so these things actually need to be established in order the storytelling to work. Yes, and that's why it is actually interesting that he has that capability.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Crimson Longinus, post: 8382890, member: 7025508"] I'm sure different people feel differently about this. But to me such inconsistencies draw the attention to the artificiality of all it and lessen my immersion. Can the hero do the thing? Depends on how it is easiest to write the story. And sure, it is ultimately all made up, but keeping things consistent helps to pretend it is real and makes the perils feel more real. It allows us to pretend the success is due the skills, power and cunning of the hero and forget it is actually due the whims of the writer. In more realistic real world setting we automatically know a lot of things. We know that humans can be threatened by guns and that they cannot stop a speeding car by bare hands. But this may not be the case in more fantastic setting, so these things actually need to be established in order the storytelling to work. Yes, and that's why it is actually interesting that he has that capability. [/QUOTE]

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