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<blockquote data-quote="MGibster" data-source="post: 8101706" data-attributes="member: 4534"><p>You are correct. And I quite honestly tend to prefer horror stories where the protagonist are competent. In Joe Hill's <em>Heart Shaped Box</em>, the protagonist, an aging rock star named Jusand Coyne, deals with an insidious curse and haunting. He's not an expert on the occult nor does he have any supernatural powers, he's just a regular person who behaves in a competent manner as he attempts to deal with this unfortunate situation he finds himself in. </p><p></p><p>And you're right about the examples you used. <em>Dracula</em> for instance. Many adaptations treat Jonathan Harker as a wimp of a secondary character but in the original story dude whips out a naughty word kurki and slashes Dracula's throat. It's been a while but I think he served in the Britsh army as some point. </p><p></p><p>And then there's <em>A Nightmare on Elmstreet</em> and again we Nancy who is just a normal teenage girl with no special powers or abilities. She figures out about Freddy and comes up with a way to defeat him. Still a horror story. </p><p></p><p>And then we have <em>The Walking Dead</em>, and, man, sometimes the characters are really hit with the idiot stick by the writers and those are often the episodes I like least. Dale's death in season two was spectacularly stupid but I understand the actor wanted to be written out of the show after his friend was ousted from his producer position.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="MGibster, post: 8101706, member: 4534"] You are correct. And I quite honestly tend to prefer horror stories where the protagonist are competent. In Joe Hill's [I]Heart Shaped Box[/I], the protagonist, an aging rock star named Jusand Coyne, deals with an insidious curse and haunting. He's not an expert on the occult nor does he have any supernatural powers, he's just a regular person who behaves in a competent manner as he attempts to deal with this unfortunate situation he finds himself in. And you're right about the examples you used. [I]Dracula[/I] for instance. Many adaptations treat Jonathan Harker as a wimp of a secondary character but in the original story dude whips out a naughty word kurki and slashes Dracula's throat. It's been a while but I think he served in the Britsh army as some point. And then there's [I]A Nightmare on Elmstreet[/I] and again we Nancy who is just a normal teenage girl with no special powers or abilities. She figures out about Freddy and comes up with a way to defeat him. Still a horror story. And then we have [I]The Walking Dead[/I], and, man, sometimes the characters are really hit with the idiot stick by the writers and those are often the episodes I like least. Dale's death in season two was spectacularly stupid but I understand the actor wanted to be written out of the show after his friend was ousted from his producer position. [/QUOTE]
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