Because the Nazgul would have nailed the eagles? The whole deal was Frodo had to sneak into Mordor, not fly in on the back of easily-spotted eagles.
He's so attractive, but I hate him, he's so attractive, but I hate him, he's so attractive, but I hate him ...all the way to the end of the book where gee, guess what, I'm in love with him.... It CAN work, if the other plot developments make this believable (like in Pride and Prejudice.) But normally, daffy romantic swithering is a real turn-off for me.
Yup. Gonna go with "Why didn't Patton just take a Jeep into Berlin and assassinate Hitler?" here. Because prior to the loss of The One Ring, Mordor was a functioning military power that would have blown those birds out of the sky.
Shit that happens out of extreme far left field that even Spork on Tau-Ceti 9-q would go:" that came out of the authors ass just to make the plot to keep moving." The chosen one, cause they have plot armor so thick that a nuke to the face is the same as a bug hitting them at 60 mph. So yeah where there is no real threat, then what is the point? Special Items to advance plot. Yes of course the only way to cross the river and storm the castle is held up with a shitty sidequest to get a condom full of dragon sperm, for some reason. IDK, just some things that bug me in stories, that kinda drag them down for me.
While within a small radius of him. Beyond that, we have no idea how interacting with people frozen in time works. If you freeze time, and then hit someone with a rock, does the person not absorb the force as it takes time for it to affect the body?
Oh my word, yes! This has bugged me for the longest time! How did Voldemort NOT KNOW he had created another Horcrux when he tried to kill Harry? They also talk about there being 7 Horcruxes, so Voldemort must have planned for that many. If he didn't know Harry was one, where is the eighth? Can Voldemort not count? Is he thick? Forgetful? Did he get lazy? As far as the films goes, it bugs me to hell that they just added in the magical mirror piece. WTF is that, and where the hell did it come from? When did Harry start keeping that in his sock? No reference to it's mysterious appearance, who it came from, what it does. Nadda.
The poor pet in a psycho thriller - he's just there to be collateral damage. The cursed house in a horror - why don't they just get the hell out! And yet I still read on.
Yeah, that dog in "Dead Calm". Sometimes when I see a family is about to go camping in the woods or one of them has trouble with a stalker and then they show they have a dog I go "oh no, the bad guys are gonna get the dog".
I've read two books where the families' dogs were killed. Well, actually one was horrifically maimed and made me cry.
Holy crap someone redid C.H.O.M.P.S? Who remakes a movie that got four (way--too generous) stars on IMDB?! Of course that's what happens when you rip off Benji without Benji.
The bad guys killed a puppy in my novel. I didn't realise it was a cliché. I'm hoping nobody notices.
*looks around whispers guiltily* I did the same in my WIP -- I don't show it and the boy doesn't know the dog was killed on purpose he just suspects. I leave it up the reader. I'm hoping nobodies notices mine either.
"Miss on purpose" was a dubious strategy used in all three films (I don't count anything after that). The running around in the first Death Star? The stormtroopers miss on purpose. The shoot-out with Luke on Bespin? The stormtroopers miss on purpose. The speeder bikes and initial attack on the bunker on Endor? The stormtroopers miss on purpose. In each scenario the Empire are explicitly putting up mock resistance to get the rebels to do what they want. Outside of that, they're pretty effective. The attack on the Tantive V, the Jawas, Luke's farm and the few TIE Fighters in the battle of the Death Star in the first film are all very effective. Similarly the attack on Hoth and the space battle around Endor. It's only the "crack" troops beaten by teddy bears that really lets them down at the end.
heart throb: "I WILL SAVE THE DAMSEL!! bad guy's henchmen: nope, sorry, i already saved her... heart throb: oh... well then I WILL SEEK REVENGE ON THE ONE WHO KEPT HER CAPTIVE!!!! -guy who held her captive dies by poisoning a few seconds before heart throb arrives- heart throb: .....I WILL GET REVENGE ON THE MAN WHO KIDNAPPED HER THEN!!!!!!!! -kidnapper gets beheaded by a rando after an intense chase chapter that results in the heart throb coming upon the beheaded body- heart throb: looks like i've rescued the damsel and somehow sated my quest for revenge BY DOING NOTHING WHAT SO EVER. oh yeah! and now i've earned my inheritance via deus ex machina! NOW I'M RICH! AND THEY ALL LIVED HAPPILY EVERY AFTER ......I've never been so disappointed long story short, passive main characters. he did absolutely nothing, but he's passed off as the hero..... no story arcs, no big change, no hard work
The split love triangle: G likes normal BF. G has major lady boner for Badboy (BB). G leaves BF for BB. G finds out BB is kinda a creep horny stalker. G runs back to BF despite not really wanting him over the BB. G goes willingly/kidnapped back to BB who just wants to bone and treat her like a blow up doll. Inept G round and round she goes, where she stops only her incapable ability to never choose mind knows. WTF!
