Is building a character a lost art or something? It seems that in many places it is the case that writers for the various mediums do not know how to build up a character and make them go through an arc, a story, where they grow and become more x or change personality all together... and likewise it also seems that many places don't seem to have consistent characters with a character being really nice one moment and then psychotic the next. Is it just me that has been noticing this a lot lately?
For example...
In wrestling, John Cena at survivors series was in the perfect position and given his character to become a "heel" a bad guy.
In Make it Break it there is a character named Lauren who does some really heinous psycho stuff, but then in the next scene she's all like "we're best buddies" and it's genuine, not faux sincerity.
In Detective Comics we've been introduced to a character that supposedly trained with Bruce and is some sort of real threat, yet we've never heard of him before and we don't really ever see any of his skills. We have no reason to think he's some sort of great fighter or what not...yet since we're told he is we're supposed to assume he is.
Likewise in Deathstroke we have the writer sitting there saying "He's badass" and in Mister Terrific we have "He's the third smartest guy in the world" repeated over and over again but we're never really shown or given any reason to think this is the case and the examples we might are more just things that show the writer doesn't know how to build the character, but is trying really really really hard by saying he does and maybe if i shout it at you enough time it will be true.
On the other hand we also have Batman's new arc where he is fighting the Owl dude which beautifully builds the character and mythos up... we legitimately see this new guy as a threat and yet he has hardly any panel time.
So... character building... is it become a lost artform or what?
Is building a character a lost art or something? It seems that in many places it is the case that writers for the various mediums do not know how to build up a character and make them go through an arc, a story, where they grow and become more x or change personality all together... and likewise it also seems that many places don't seem to have consistent characters with a character being really nice one moment and then psychotic the next. Is it just me that has been noticing this a lot lately?
For example...
In wrestling, John Cena at survivors series was in the perfect position and given his character to become a "heel" a bad guy.
In Make it Break it there is a character named Lauren who does some really heinous psycho stuff, but then in the next scene she's all like "we're best buddies" and it's genuine, not faux sincerity.
In Detective Comics we've been introduced to a character that supposedly trained with Bruce and is some sort of real threat, yet we've never heard of him before and we don't really ever see any of his skills. We have no reason to think he's some sort of great fighter or what not...yet since we're told he is we're supposed to assume he is.
Likewise in Deathstroke we have the writer sitting there saying "He's badass" and in Mister Terrific we have "He's the third smartest guy in the world" repeated over and over again but we're never really shown or given any reason to think this is the case and the examples we might are more just things that show the writer doesn't know how to build the character, but is trying really really really hard by saying he does and maybe if i shout it at you enough time it will be true.
On the other hand we also have Batman's new arc where he is fighting the Owl dude which beautifully builds the character and mythos up... we legitimately see this new guy as a threat and yet he has hardly any panel time.
So... character building... is it become a lost artform or what?