Nerd criticism of fiction seems to work on two levels, which interconnect often.
Let's say a character makes a decision that seems stupid to the reader/viewer/watcher but is not treated as such by the narrative. At this point, two criticisms are made: that the character is stupid for choosing such an option, and that the author is bad for writing such a brainless narrative. The thing is that one relies on treating the character and the world they live in as real, and the character as an idiot, while the other relies on treating it as fake and the author as at fault for failing to maintain the illusion of realness. One criticism believes the illusion while the other criticizes the failure of the illusion. Both are held simultaneously.
The thing is, the most valid criticism from where I stand is that an action that is clearly negative isn't framed as such. I don't think the two approaches you demonstrated are exactly equivalent, also the former tends to be used more in comedic criticism.
I don't mean as in "Character A kills someone and no one sees something wrong with it". I mean "Character A doesn't take the way out of a situation that the writer wasn't able to think of"
Without asking the author, how do you tell the difference between the author not thinking of the solution, and the author thinking of the solution but deciding the character wouldn't?
I guess in my own writing (fanfics) I would stick something in the story itself to make it clear that it was the character's fault and not mine. Like, after the protagonist does something needlessly complicated to accomplish some goal, another character asks "Why didn't you just do Y?" and my protagonist doesn't have an answer.
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Wait, Odradek. I always thought nostalegiabraist.tumblr.com was your blog and you kept linking to it because you wanted us to see what you had written. Now you're saying they're someone else?
http://www.desura.com/games/ryona-zombits <-- this had better not actually be a ryona game, and just be very unfortunately named for those of us who know of the other meaning of that term
("ryona" being a niche subgenre of games in Japan where the emphasis is on (almost always female) characters being beaten to a pulp and/or subjected to sexual assault)
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("ryona" being a niche subgenre of games in Japan where the emphasis is on (almost always female) characters being beaten to a pulp and/or subjected to sexual assault)
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I remember people on the forum freaking out when that article was brought up for repair; iirc it ended up having its examples cut
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It would be more interesting at any rate.
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