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Originally Posted by hildea
- Characters (especially important characters) who are too one dimensional, all good or all evil or all competent. I abandoned McCullogh's First Man in Rome series halfway through the last of six (or was it five?) books because Gaius Julius Caesar became too annoyingly good at everything he did
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I remember reading somewhere that Colleen McCullough fell in love with Caesar as she wrote the books and that colored her depiction of him.
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- World building which doesn't make sense within its own logic. I don't mind shapeshifters who don't respect conservation of mass -- I'm willing to handwave that. But it annoys me that Ron Weasley has old-fashioned dress robes when his mother is a wizard with lots of experience in household spells -- she could have fixed those robes for him in five minutes with her wand and glance at a fashion magazine
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Yes! This is especially common in movies and always bugs me. Instead of enjoying the story, you find yourself thinking "if they could do
a, then why does
b happen?"
Any of those movies where it's essentially the real world, but it turns out Santa does exist (The Santa Clause, Elf). If Santa is real in your story, then everyone would know it. Where do all those unexplained presents come from?