Talk:The Case of Stitch (Part 7)/@comment-24432447-20150202094650/@comment-30157838-20161008033034

Junisaur, I highly doubt he meant he was actually, literally yelling at the screen about the character.

Believability in a character is important. It's far more impressive for an author to make believable characters is unbelievable situations than to make incompetent ones who everyone pretends is believable in the context of the story. That's kind of how creating characters works.

Are you telling me you've never watched a horror movie and gone 'oh, geez, don't go in there!' ?

It's the same principle. A teenager hearing a chopping sound in a log cabin and deciding to investigate is stupid, as is a detective who has openings to find information yet takes none of them. If that aspect of the story had been played up, so that everybody around the detective knows that he is incompetent because of his actions, it might have turned out better than it did, but everyone seems to treat him as if he's doing everything right, which anyone with even the mildest knowledge of police operation would see that's not the case.

Jumping to the conclusion that somebody is literally mental for disagreeing with the portrayal of a supposedly top-notch detective in a horror story who makes stupid decisions is well...stupid. They have every right to disagree with the interpretation of the character, and I fully sympathize with the complaints levied here.

But hey, it's not as if I know anything about writing, right? ;)