Comment on “Fixed” — A Star Wars tale

1. Be_Right_Back Wed 11 Nov 2020 08:53AM UTC

   

   Oh, I don't mind people ranting. Let's be honest about it: the JA worldbuilding sucks.

   Glad you decided to click on this then ;) Thank you for the comment

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2. 1. Tuesday_Next Mon 09 Aug 2021 02:32AM UTC

      

      Even beyond the world building, the adults in YA books are basically required to be negligent. If Qui-Gon didn’t leave Obi-Wan alone in dangerous situations, then we’d just have an adult Jedi solving all the problems while his Padawan tags along. Or worse, boring missions where nothing goes wrong and there is no danger. In order for the kid protagonist to actually be the hero, he needs to go on adventures alone at least sometimes. Trying to reconcile adult sensibilities with YA fiction makes it easy to portray the adults as evil (see the Evil Dumbledore trope for another example).

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