From my point of view, the hero is evil!Hmm yes.. that evil woman smile does things to me
You can simplify this much more. The thrust of what she was saying wasn't really defined by the magibabble, it was mostly implied. She made the micro-world they're in, and she got to define the rules of physics. She spends a lot of time explaining the rules, but the important part is that she decided it wouldn't work, so it didn't.I feel that explanation of the barrier didn't really make sense...like if that's effectively saying the outside of the sphere applies antigravity (or seen as a gravity hill), the beam would bend but outright reflection doesn't make sense.
Not sure lost in translation or just...typical fantasy worldbuilding that you shouldn't think too hard about.
Ah, so very literally this:You can simplify this much more. The thrust of what she was saying wasn't really defined by the magibabble, it was mostly implied. She made the micro-world they're in, and she got to define the rules of physics. She spends a lot of time explaining the rules, but the important part is that she decided it wouldn't work, so it didn't.
My criticism is basically, if the explanation doesn't make sense, why bother having it? She could have just said something like "the world is set up so an attack like that wouldn't interact"--yet instead we get a whole thing about gravity, except it only makes the explanation seem wrong.You can simplify this much more. The thrust of what she was saying wasn't really defined by the magibabble, it was mostly implied. She made the micro-world they're in, and she got to define the rules of physics. She spends a lot of time explaining the rules, but the important part is that she decided it wouldn't work, so it didn't.
My criticism is basically, if the explanation doesn't make sense, why bother having it? She could have just said something like "the world is set up so an attack like that wouldn't interact"--yet instead we get a whole thing about gravity, except it only makes the explanation seem wrong.