Some stories start out great, stay great and are still great by the end. Some, however, are not. Which stories (from any media) started out nice, but lost kind of became dumb, or uniteresting, or something else at some point.
For me it's currently ongoing anime called Gate
The premise is great: the gate opens in Tokyo, out of which different kind of fantasy creatures emmerge. They kill a few people, but are quickly destroyed, since they only had swords and bows. Japanese goverment decided to send its Defence Force to the otherside. And, concidering that it's basically a classical fantasy world mixed with Roman Empire (with coresponding level of technical advancement) and JSDF has firearms, tanks, helies, etc., it is all well and good for earthlings. It was fun to finally see "our guys" in a superior beings role.
However, as soon as story gets back to our world, it all comes down the drain. I'll forget the fact that over the whole story the main character feels like a Marty Sue (with him being lazy otaku, but due to luck and plot becoming a commander of a military unit, who also has the rank of ranger). I'll forget the fact that author shows Japanese parliament member as a complete idiot (I don't live in Japan, so I wouldn't know enough to judge them objectively). However, this story shows the three modern "enemies" of Japan (i.e. USA, China and Russia) as gun-hoe countries ran by morons.
I mean, USA, Russia and China want to lay their hands on untapped resources of this new world. People from other side of the gate finally come to our world. What do these 3 coutries do? They send special forces to capture them, all while USA president acts like a complete ass towards oh so glorious Japan Prime Minister. And when it all fails (due to one of the guests being a demigod) US presidents acts like a brat throwing a tantrum. ANd then they surrender, basically.
What the actual FUCK? Look, I don't have any particular love or hate towards US or China and I dislike Russian goverment, but even I have to agree that this portrail of superpowers is degrading. What would real governments do? Right of the bat, as soon as those people came out from the gate, they'd send their ambassadors with their best translators to ask these guests to visit THEIR countries and ask from representatives of Japan if they mind. And all this while cameras are pointed at them. Japan simply CANNOT say no. And when they are in the USA, Russia and/or China, politicians of these coutries would've started working on the guests to convince them that if one coutry has access to the gate it is unfair.
And that is what I thought of right after I watched episodes that took place in our world. Politicians would've thought of something even better. They may look and act dumb, but they are not dumb for real.
If you have a strong feeling of hate towards someone, at least put some damn effort in portraying them in a proper light at the very least because you must have at the very least SOME respect towards intelligence of your readers/viewers.
Anyway, what are your examples?
For me it's currently ongoing anime called Gate
However, as soon as story gets back to our world, it all comes down the drain. I'll forget the fact that over the whole story the main character feels like a Marty Sue (with him being lazy otaku, but due to luck and plot becoming a commander of a military unit, who also has the rank of ranger). I'll forget the fact that author shows Japanese parliament member as a complete idiot (I don't live in Japan, so I wouldn't know enough to judge them objectively). However, this story shows the three modern "enemies" of Japan (i.e. USA, China and Russia) as gun-hoe countries ran by morons.
I mean, USA, Russia and China want to lay their hands on untapped resources of this new world. People from other side of the gate finally come to our world. What do these 3 coutries do? They send special forces to capture them, all while USA president acts like a complete ass towards oh so glorious Japan Prime Minister. And when it all fails (due to one of the guests being a demigod) US presidents acts like a brat throwing a tantrum. ANd then they surrender, basically.
What the actual FUCK? Look, I don't have any particular love or hate towards US or China and I dislike Russian goverment, but even I have to agree that this portrail of superpowers is degrading. What would real governments do? Right of the bat, as soon as those people came out from the gate, they'd send their ambassadors with their best translators to ask these guests to visit THEIR countries and ask from representatives of Japan if they mind. And all this while cameras are pointed at them. Japan simply CANNOT say no. And when they are in the USA, Russia and/or China, politicians of these coutries would've started working on the guests to convince them that if one coutry has access to the gate it is unfair.
And that is what I thought of right after I watched episodes that took place in our world. Politicians would've thought of something even better. They may look and act dumb, but they are not dumb for real.
If you have a strong feeling of hate towards someone, at least put some damn effort in portraying them in a proper light at the very least because you must have at the very least SOME respect towards intelligence of your readers/viewers.
Anyway, what are your examples?
