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I must be explaining myself really badly because I completely agree with you.Ok, jokes aside you have some good points. Some of them are arguable. I have to disagree with your general premise.
But i am going back for just a second to the loan issue. One of Shakespeare works was The Merchant of Venice. In that play a guy got a loan by puting 1 pound of his own flesh as garantee. In the subsequent trial the debtor' lawyer sucessfuly defend his client by saying that the agreement didn't included blood, so if the lender spill blood while extracting the flesh, then it should be charged with his own blood.
It's clear that this whole issue, as most of the argument in that play, has no sense at all. Of course the play is considered a literature classic, is teached in schools and the author considered a genious and one of the best writers in mankind history.
Why? Because we dont care. Because we decide to ignore thoose plot holes to enjoy what really matters to us in a work of fiction. And thats the quality of the prose. The writing of Shakespeare is sometimes funny sometimes beautifull, always clever. The argument is full of flaws but entartaining. And the flesh/blood issues is just a clumsy metaphor of renaissance views on "usury".
With all this issues is the same. Most of us dont give a crap. I joked about porn vs plot disminishing the later but the true is i like the story. It's sometimes funny sometimes beautifull, most of time clever. You only care of this plot holes when you are submerged in that particular world but even then i am not sure that matters.
I followed a channel in youtube from a british historian who analized historical movies. He claimed he care about historical accuracy and for some time i believe him. But then i realize that he hated inacurate movies in wich the british where disminished, like Braveheart, but he loved inacurate movies in wich that didn't happen, like Gladiator. And it got even worse.
I have been thinking a lot about this issues for some time now. I guess a lot of us did the same. And yet i can't find satisfactory answers. So i cant really answer the question i made with a confused and sometimes contradictory mix of theories. But there is something i know for sure. I couldnt care less about an accurate depiction of lawsuits in USA in a porn/love story.
i've said several times that i don't care at all about how well-founded the danger of a complaint to mc for 'the fire' is and in the same way i don't care at all about how sensible this double signature student loan is whose money is slid into the hands of a non-student but whose obligations are all on a student. i don't find them particularly successful moments, but i don't really care.
but everything that makes the characters in the story i read seem stupid is a problem, stupid beyond justification ("they are young", "they are in love", "they are naive" etc.).
and since the consequence of this is that I lose interest in a character, for me it represents bad writing. of course it's subjective, I have no claim to objectivity.
if at the end of it all the loan was a gigantic set up by Maya's father this for me would bring down the interest in the character, I accepted everything Maya/DPc told me about it, if the solution is that it was all a scam (as was evident from the real world) it would demolish Maya's character for me.
it's like in the shakespearean example you gave if the whole thing ends with a lawyer declaring that it's all nonsense and they can all go home happy. the drama becomes farce, and i don't care anymore.
I only mentioned Maya and Jill because they are the 2 most obvious and discussed examples, but I could have done the same reasoning for Sage, who keeps refusing to take into consideration Quinn's responsibilities ("it's her way of joking" "it's just her attitude" "it's her strange sense of humour"...)
I don't play BADIK to train myself in law or right to study, but if at the end the solution to carry on the story is to make the protagonists idiots for me there is a problem and a big one too
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