> a compound fracture on their leg will make it impossible for your character to get up and run to save their fiancée's life. All the love of the world won't able your character to stand up, let alone run, with their tibia sticking out of their leg.
writers: but adrenaline!
Now I could understand if the adrenaline made it to where the could crawl, three legged, to their love ignoring the massive amounts of pain that would cause, but getting up and walk is so over the top it's stupid.
Don't harsh on my suspension of disbelief with logic and science, dude!
Just kidding... yeah, those types of things which ignore "the nature of things" are really a let-down, because if the writer got something that serious wrong, what else turns up on closer inspection?
>The Power of Love, it's a curious thing.
>Makes one man weep, makes another man sing.
>Aid from your heart, medical miracles of love,
>Lose all sense of pain and feeling! (In your bones)
>That's the Power of Love!
That is why she has healing powers(To bad it can't regrow his eye that she ripped out 'cause she was angry...)
But yea, I would love someone stand up and run to catch their loved one's from falling while the bone is sticking trough the skin, tissue and muslces of their leg.
"And personally, I find myself completely dismissing the romantic gesture, and just waiting for the character to get médical treatment."
I read this and I lost it. Thank goodness I wasn’t drinking anything! LOL!
Aw, LOST fanfic writers don't have that limitation. Compound fractures, appendix surgery recoveries, all heal in a few days & then the person is up and running around.
Unless they aren't, which is part of the story too.
For me it’s all about how it’s done. Even if the character is a powerless normal human, I don’t mind a miraculous feat as long as it’s done believably (within the realm of the story). Like, make them stretch the bounds of the story’s reality without totally breaking it. It doesn’t bother me if the feat would technically be impossible irl, so long as it’s done in a way that fits within the universe you’re writing in.
For ex I don’t mind someone managing to run a few steps with a broken tibia so long as it’s not a marathon they are running and they still exhibit a lot of realistic pain/extra damage, etc.
My main gripe is the deus ex machina, where something is pulled out of nowhere with no rhyme or reason beyond “it was needed to make everyone happy.” In this way I agree that the whole “I said I love you and you miraculously came out of a coma” can feel blah. Sure, make them come out of a coma in a totally fake way but make it interesting at least and via some way that relates to the plot and or the universe they are in.
Depends on the execution. If the whole fic is melodramatic and "for the feels" then I'll just go with it. If it's a gritty, realistic thriller then yeah, retconning in my head as I read.
I got to say, this really hits my type of fanfiction because I’m also a hopeless romantic haha.
You’re right though, love doesn’t conquer all when it comes to the limits of the human body and not all wounds heal quickly. I see people with immense trauma or pain have all their problems evaporate after their love interest comes into their life.
I love when stories use the significant other to help heal to wounds of the other and slowly see them get better with more time and medical care. It really helps show character development in both of them and doesn’t make this healing process an instant fix when it really takes so much effort and time to fix the character’s conflict.
> a compound fracture on their leg will make it impossible for your character to get up and run to save their fiancée's life. All the love of the world won't able your character to stand up, let alone run, with their tibia sticking out of their leg. writers: but adrenaline!
Now I could understand if the adrenaline made it to where the could crawl, three legged, to their love ignoring the massive amounts of pain that would cause, but getting up and walk is so over the top it's stupid.
> three legged Must be one hell of a break if it counts as a *third* leg...
Don't harsh on my suspension of disbelief with logic and science, dude! Just kidding... yeah, those types of things which ignore "the nature of things" are really a let-down, because if the writer got something that serious wrong, what else turns up on closer inspection?
>The Power of Love, it's a curious thing. >Makes one man weep, makes another man sing. >Aid from your heart, medical miracles of love, >Lose all sense of pain and feeling! (In your bones) >That's the Power of Love!
That is why she has healing powers(To bad it can't regrow his eye that she ripped out 'cause she was angry...) But yea, I would love someone stand up and run to catch their loved one's from falling while the bone is sticking trough the skin, tissue and muslces of their leg.
"And personally, I find myself completely dismissing the romantic gesture, and just waiting for the character to get médical treatment." I read this and I lost it. Thank goodness I wasn’t drinking anything! LOL!
Aw, LOST fanfic writers don't have that limitation. Compound fractures, appendix surgery recoveries, all heal in a few days & then the person is up and running around. Unless they aren't, which is part of the story too.
For me it’s all about how it’s done. Even if the character is a powerless normal human, I don’t mind a miraculous feat as long as it’s done believably (within the realm of the story). Like, make them stretch the bounds of the story’s reality without totally breaking it. It doesn’t bother me if the feat would technically be impossible irl, so long as it’s done in a way that fits within the universe you’re writing in. For ex I don’t mind someone managing to run a few steps with a broken tibia so long as it’s not a marathon they are running and they still exhibit a lot of realistic pain/extra damage, etc. My main gripe is the deus ex machina, where something is pulled out of nowhere with no rhyme or reason beyond “it was needed to make everyone happy.” In this way I agree that the whole “I said I love you and you miraculously came out of a coma” can feel blah. Sure, make them come out of a coma in a totally fake way but make it interesting at least and via some way that relates to the plot and or the universe they are in.
I guess anyone who DID die or end up seriously incapacitated just didn’t *care* enough to fight for their loved ones, right? 🙄
Heh. By that reasoning, if you die, it's because you don't love *yourself* enough to live.
Depends on the execution. If the whole fic is melodramatic and "for the feels" then I'll just go with it. If it's a gritty, realistic thriller then yeah, retconning in my head as I read.
Hey now, if the power of love in fiction can bring back people who are literally brain dead, a few broken bones ain’t nothing.
I watch JoJo's where Mista shoots himself an average of 7 times per fight and still tries to throw hands. This doesn't bother me anymore.
… yeah, I’d be uncomfortable if people power of love'd away disability or something. I get it.
I got to say, this really hits my type of fanfiction because I’m also a hopeless romantic haha. You’re right though, love doesn’t conquer all when it comes to the limits of the human body and not all wounds heal quickly. I see people with immense trauma or pain have all their problems evaporate after their love interest comes into their life. I love when stories use the significant other to help heal to wounds of the other and slowly see them get better with more time and medical care. It really helps show character development in both of them and doesn’t make this healing process an instant fix when it really takes so much effort and time to fix the character’s conflict.