Okay,I'll start with one of mine. I read a story recently that about halfway through took a turn for the post-singularity type stuff. Leaving aside the part where the world was more unique and interesting before that happened... do you seriously expect me to believe something based on the premise of computers and machinery that are perfectly reliable forever?* Why don't you have quantum mechanics that work the way they do because subatomic particles are made up of colonies of tiny unicorns? It'd make about as much sense.
*Exacerbated in this particular case by a particular case where something didn't work completely right when one group of people did it, but *did* work completely right a different time.
I don't think that would even reach the SoD filter for me. I'd hit something like that and go "Author, you seem to have some fetishes. I don't think I'm interested in hanging around for them. Bye." (Admittedly, I've sat through a lot of Jack Chalker books, but this sounds... much less subtle.)
Always seemed to me like it was always when his characters ran out of actual goals to pursue that things really started to go crazy. (Kind of makes it amazing how often CXD didn't go off the rails, given that "the main character can't pursue his actual goals right now" was a recurring thing.)
Though a lot of the stuff you posted isn't something that feels like a suspension of disbelief issue to me, rather than just generic crap.
It really didn't seem like a thing that needed explaining at all and I'm not sure why they bothered. But at least it's just an author's note that can be completely ignored without affecting the story.
There's a Negima fanfic with a similar premise, except that the author isn't reversing the way gender roles work in that universe, just the genders of the characters. In one AN he noted that realistically, flipping the genders of historically everyone ever would not give that result, but that it was pretty much necessary given the ideas he was trying to explore in the story, which struck me as fair enough.
-Morgan.
*Exacerbated in this particular case by a particular case where something didn't work completely right when one group of people did it, but *did* work completely right a different time.
Kilroy Wrote:In story it is described as a prank enforced via a binding magical contract, but its effects (enforced nudity, forced gender change for wizards, the addition of a tail) all look to me to be meant as lowering the affected student’s status, dehumanizing them.
I don't think that would even reach the SoD filter for me. I'd hit something like that and go "Author, you seem to have some fetishes. I don't think I'm interested in hanging around for them. Bye." (Admittedly, I've sat through a lot of Jack Chalker books, but this sounds... much less subtle.)
Bob Schroeck Wrote:Well, you can look at Skysaber's work for a good, concise collection. When he's on the ball, his stuff is fun as hell and often funny as hell. But far too often it spirals out of control and being a protagonist in one of his stories becomes a license to commit any atrocity while lecturing everyone in earshot about how it is the right and proper thing to do.
Always seemed to me like it was always when his characters ran out of actual goals to pursue that things really started to go crazy. (Kind of makes it amazing how often CXD didn't go off the rails, given that "the main character can't pursue his actual goals right now" was a recurring thing.)
Though a lot of the stuff you posted isn't something that feels like a suspension of disbelief issue to me, rather than just generic crap.
Matrix Dragon Wrote:... Why would you use that for an explanation there? Alternate dimensions get a pass because Magic, but Genetics Simply Do Not Work That Way.
It really didn't seem like a thing that needed explaining at all and I'm not sure why they bothered. But at least it's just an author's note that can be completely ignored without affecting the story.
There's a Negima fanfic with a similar premise, except that the author isn't reversing the way gender roles work in that universe, just the genders of the characters. In one AN he noted that realistically, flipping the genders of historically everyone ever would not give that result, but that it was pretty much necessary given the ideas he was trying to explore in the story, which struck me as fair enough.
-Morgan.