So, I'm on the UK terrestrial schedule, so I know I'm not completely up to date, but this was prompted by a conversation at work (museum staff are incredibly geeky
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I don't like 'introduction' characters. Characters who are new to their world and need everything explaining to them. I think they're kind of lazy, to be honest.
I don't watch SHIELD but I'm very much with you on that preference. I find them an exceptionally lazy (I guess an American would say Sophomoric, it's that juvenile) device, and what you've described up there in terms of her character I'd probably call her a Mary Sue because I'm unfashionable and still use that phrase for characters who are brazenly and unrealistically distorting the narrative around them.
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I don't watch SHIELD but I'm very much with you on that preference. I find them an exceptionally lazy (I guess an American would say Sophomoric, it's that juvenile) device, and what you've described up there in terms of her character I'd probably call her a Mary Sue because I'm unfashionable and still use that phrase for characters who are brazenly and unrealistically distorting the narrative around them.
Sigh. :( It sounds very one-dimensional.
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