> But as for dealing with the business side of things...it's actually a great set up to get Ratio's perspective.
Well, sure, if the writers actually want to write about the philosophical/ethical/etc. parts of dealing with the IPC, but most people don't. Usually, the IPC (or Guild) is just there as a catalyst for the plot, a reason for why the heroes are participating in the adventure of the episode kind of deal.
It's a bit sad, because even ignoring Dr. Ratio, Aventurine (who's the more popular character of this ship) and his relationship with the IPC, the IPC's relationship with the cosmos, are also very interesting topics to explore. But no one does it in favor of painting Aventurine as the standard overworked 007 employee of megacorp trope. Despite the fact that at his level Aventurine is upper management, not low level employee, and by definition the inflictor of 007 more than the victim of it, if anything. But people would rather "woobie" Aventurine, I guess. -_-
> I'm still a bit annoyed at the weird robotic-ness of Dr. Ratio's language quirks
I am coming to the hypothesis that people tend to write him like this because of stereotypes and that's how they think smart people behave or should be portrayed.
Still, IMO this is more tolerable than the other extreme, which is to have all characters use netspeak slang and swear all over the place because that's how the writer talks in real life. Writing from a thesaurus is better than writing with no vocabulary at all. -_-
> It's basically just comics schlock (reminds me of Dr. Banner's 7 PhDs).
LOL, now that you remind me. This is why my personal headcanon is that most of those degrees are honorary ones foisted on Dr. Ratio by his university...(Moving the rest of this headcanon to my latest post)
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Date: 2024-09-19 17:11 (UTC)Well, sure, if the writers actually want to write about the philosophical/ethical/etc. parts of dealing with the IPC, but most people don't. Usually, the IPC (or Guild) is just there as a catalyst for the plot, a reason for why the heroes are participating in the adventure of the episode kind of deal.
It's a bit sad, because even ignoring Dr. Ratio, Aventurine (who's the more popular character of this ship) and his relationship with the IPC, the IPC's relationship with the cosmos, are also very interesting topics to explore. But no one does it in favor of painting Aventurine as the standard overworked 007 employee of megacorp trope. Despite the fact that at his level Aventurine is upper management, not low level employee, and by definition the inflictor of 007 more than the victim of it, if anything. But people would rather "woobie" Aventurine, I guess. -_-
> I'm still a bit annoyed at the weird robotic-ness of Dr. Ratio's language quirks
I am coming to the hypothesis that people tend to write him like this because of stereotypes and that's how they think smart people behave or should be portrayed.
Still, IMO this is more tolerable than the other extreme, which is to have all characters use netspeak slang and swear all over the place because that's how the writer talks in real life. Writing from a thesaurus is better than writing with no vocabulary at all. -_-
> It's basically just comics schlock (reminds me of Dr. Banner's 7 PhDs).
LOL, now that you remind me. This is why my personal headcanon is that most of those degrees are honorary ones foisted on Dr. Ratio by his university...(Moving the rest of this headcanon to my latest post)