>It's not that he's poorly writtenEh, that's a separate discussion, and depends partly on how one defines "poorly written."
>or inconsistent or any
>of the standard problems with a character that can make them
>unbelievable, it's that he's "too good to be true", so people are
>looking for the catch.
Neil Gaiman once put it this way: "Life is always going to be stranger than fiction, because fiction has to be convincing and life doesn't."
Yes, this is actually a problem, at least for me; Corwin's supernatural gifts are actually more plausible to me than the idea that anyone could be ... well, as Gryph's spirited defense upthread states. In many ways, Corwin is too perfect -- he just isn't believable to me.
I don't have an agenda here; I'm saying that the relationship skeeved me out, both in its potential back when SotS started, and when it became canon. It was much later that I managed to articulate why.
"Mathematics brought rigor to economics. Unfortunately, it also brought mortis."
- Kenneth Boulding