It's like story-story-OMGCLIFFHANGER-story-story-OMGCLIFFHANGER-lather-rinse-repeat. I don't, it gets to me after a while. I feel like shouting OMG! DIAL DOWN THE EMOTION!
It does give the story arc a very punctuated rhythm. Instead of a slow build and a climax you get this very quick up and down, which can be jarring.
I have the same problem with the telepathic shenanigans. Some writers don't understand how much that kind of forced intimacy would screw a person up. Especially superheroes, many of whom are already such dysfunctional personalities.
*nodding* And they also never deal with the fact that most people outside of the situation wouldn't realize or wouldn't believe that telepathic control was responsible, which means a lot of people would be reacting to the controlled person as if they were responsible for what they did while under control.
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It does give the story arc a very punctuated rhythm. Instead of a slow build and a climax you get this very quick up and down, which can be jarring.
I have the same problem with the telepathic shenanigans. Some writers don't understand how much that kind of forced intimacy would screw a person up. Especially superheroes, many of whom are already such dysfunctional personalities.
*nodding* And they also never deal with the fact that most people outside of the situation wouldn't realize or wouldn't believe that telepathic control was responsible, which means a lot of people would be reacting to the controlled person as if they were responsible for what they did while under control.