Look, this is the female childhood friend/lover of Nasr-al-Din al-Tusi who had a violent personal encounter with Tolui, then by chance had an opportunity to sit at a lecture by Daoist Grand Master Changchun on his way to meeting Genghis Khan himself and you complain about the bezoar stone?Nope. Finding and then accidentally dropping just the right item at just the right time is too contrived.
The issue for me is fundamental dependence of the plot upon chance coincidence, not the mere appearance of unlikely sequences of events.Look, this is the female childhood friend/lover of Nasr-al-Din al-Tusi who had a violent personal encounter with Tolui, then by chance had an opportunity to sit at a lecture by Daoist Grand Master Changchun on his way to meeting Genghis Khan himself and you complain about the bezoar stone?
Look at the cover art and gain some insight.The issue for me is fundamental dependence of the plot upon chance coincidence, not the mere appearance of unlikely sequences of events.
You appear to be working rather hard to miss the point. If you persist, then discussion with you would be (as Paine would say) “like administering medicine to the dead”.Look at the cover art and gain some insight.
Formative years are blips for older people. Only specific events need to be told to gain context to a larger story set in later years. I'm guessing the larger part will be told when she's, like the manga cover, grey of hair, wrinkled and soft of expression.
What was your point again? I'm kimda distracted with the translator's note about that sixth wife being actually the second but still being relevant because the author didn't know better.You appear to be working rather hard to miss the point. If you persist, then discussion with you would be (as Paine would say) “like administering medicine to the dead”.
Certainly you are, because I was writing of plot contrivance, as I made quite plain:I don't think she dropped the right item at the right time, it looked like that event was going to blow her cover at first and then, it looked like it was going to get her into trouble.
Is it actually helping her to achieve her goals? I guess I'm too dumb to realize that.
Now please desist.The issue for me is fundamental dependence of the plot upon chance coincidence
Imagine that a companion criticizes the driver of a vehicle that turn and heads the wrong way down a one-way street, and your response is to defend the driver by demanding that your companion tell you which way the driver should have turned, as if your companion, before criticizing such driving, ought to know the destination of the driver.What do you think it should have happened?
Of course you are comfortable with cheap and stupid construction of the plot; but your comfort is no defense.That is more interesting than whether the plot is artificial or not. To me right now, that is.
What an awesome response, let me throw you another cheap and stupid attempt at arguing with you: I think it's a matter of taste if you found the construction of the plot cheap and stupid too.Imagine that a companion criticizes the driver of a vehicle that turn and heads the wrong way down a one-way street, and your response is to defend the driver by demanding that your companion tell you which way the driver should have turned, as if your companion, before criticizing such driving, ought to know the destination of the driver.
What a cheap and stupid attempt at Socratic argument!
Of course you are comfortable with cheap and stupid construction of the plot; but your comfort is no defense.
I explained why your construction is cheap and stupid; and, before that, why the plot construction was cheap and stupid. It's not a mere matter of taste whether those constructions are cheap and stupid. You have a taste for the cheap and stupid, but argue with those who identify the cheap and stupid as such.What an awesome response, let me throw you another cheap and stupid attempt at arguing with you: I think it's a matter of taste if you found the construction of the plot cheap and stupid too.
And that makes me... What?You have a taste for the cheap and stupid, but argue with those who identify the cheap and stupid as such.
That question is not interesting and its proper answer would involve getting to know more about you, which is itself an unattractive thought.And that makes me... What?
Aww, well I tried.That question is not interesting and its proper answer would involve getting to know more about you, which is itself an unattractive thought.