Gurkhal
Auror
To me its predictability (is that a word?) and boring main characters.
When I can predict what will happen and heroes generally pull victories out fo their asses that puts me off, and so does boring main characters. A hero can be as good, nice and righteous as he wants. But if he, or she, is boring I will not care for that character.
And when I think about it, the same goes for a boring struggle. If the heroes walks from one triumph to another I will throw away my book. The heroes should struggle, bleed, cry and lose things they value forever before they can reach victory, and look back on a hard struggle knowing it was something they had to struggle for. A struggle in which nothing was sacrificed is in my eyes boring and uninteresting.
When I can predict what will happen and heroes generally pull victories out fo their asses that puts me off, and so does boring main characters. A hero can be as good, nice and righteous as he wants. But if he, or she, is boring I will not care for that character.
And when I think about it, the same goes for a boring struggle. If the heroes walks from one triumph to another I will throw away my book. The heroes should struggle, bleed, cry and lose things they value forever before they can reach victory, and look back on a hard struggle knowing it was something they had to struggle for. A struggle in which nothing was sacrificed is in my eyes boring and uninteresting.