I prefer main characters to be brilliant and awesome but I'm okay with them being idiotic as long as it's acknowledged. What I really hate is when the narrations says "he's brilliant" and then the dialogue demonstrates exactly how far from true that really is.
Robert Heinlein wrote a whole mess of really awesome science fiction books some decades back but I always have to just ignore the female characters as best I can. (Luckily they're not common) He tends to have them be "really brave" because they can cower behind the hero rather than faint dead away, or be "really brilliant" because they can mostly follow the heroes thought process when it's explained.
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Date: 2009-11-12 08:02 pm (UTC)Robert Heinlein wrote a whole mess of really awesome science fiction books some decades back but I always have to just ignore the female characters as best I can. (Luckily they're not common) He tends to have them be "really brave" because they can cower behind the hero rather than faint dead away, or be "really brilliant" because they can mostly follow the heroes thought process when it's explained.