>>77041947>Discussing issues of a story>Pulls the "IT'S JUST A STORY" excuseHoly fuck. let me break this down in case you aren't shitposting.
Someone being a complete fucking failure and getting praised for it by the surrounding narrative doesn't fucking work- if your protagonist is going to be a fuckup, then you need to have a bit of fucking objectivity to that.
Look at Jack Burton in Big Trouble In Little China. The dude is like, the biggest fuckup in film history. He gets blinded, bitches about his truck, bitches about the weather, bitches about his insurance, fails to save a girl TWICE, fails to help Wang fight off the gangsters, Fails to help against ANY of the Three Storms, literally sits out almost the entire final battle because he knocked himself unconscious by accident, and it goes on from there.
But there are two major differences here:
One, the narrative never tries to sell him as a cool guy. His is a huge goober who THINKS he's hot shit and that's what makes him endearing. He's like Travis Touchdown.
And two, his fuckups were more or less stomachable because he was never supposed to be involved in this crazy spiritual Asian magic gang war in the first place. So any mistakes just kept him neutral, and with any success, he had nowhere to go but up.
But when the narrative says "this person is so awesome" and "all these problems are theirs to deal with specifically" and we're supposed to keep acting like all that's hunky-dory even when they keep ruining everything, and can't do anything without help? It builds resentment against this incapable retard they call a protagonist. Fuck me, even Jack Burton took down David Lo Pan by his lonesome. Korra just has to be saved from Amon in their final battle. And when she walked into an obvious trap. And when she walked into that other obvious trap a couple seasons later. And on and on it goes.
Please try and have a lick of perspective on the issue.
