Current Events Big Mom’s “Mother Mode” is some of the worst writing in all of One Piece...
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Literature has fluid and fixed rules, fundamentals that have to be preserved, and the rest is up to your imagination. There's a big difference between the story that you don't like and a story that is poorly written. A really bad story can be professionally written while a really good story can be poorly executed. Epic of Gilgamesh is one of the oldest examples of storytelling, at that time there were no rules or standards that we have today. Originally Epic of Gilgamesh was based on the life of the great sumerian King, it isn't a story on its own but rather the exaggerated version of the real history. The biggest advancements in literature have happened in the last 300/400 years, it is ridicules to bring up Epic of Gilgamesh and use it for your argument. If there were no rules in literature then we would have indeed never moved beyond Epic of Gilgamesh, but humans are smart creatures, although it took as some time but we figured out the human nature from which those exact rules drive from; just like the rules of physics drive from the mather nature. This things are interconnected, just like the psychologists use storytelling to understand human nature, the writers use human nature to understand storytelling.
I have a suspicion that you're desperately trying to look smart, I'd suggest you to stop doing that.
I have a suspicion that you're desperately trying to look smart, I'd suggest you to stop doing that.
Don't know what's so hard to understand about it. Do I really need to explain the concept of maternal bonding to you, and how it can present itself between women and children who aren't even theirs? Is it really that big of a shocker that the woman who has had 85 children in her lifetime would develop a maternal attachment to a child who she's developed a relationship with?
But yeah, screw things like maternal bonding and maternal attachment making sense for a mentally disturbed character like Big Mom whose had 85 children making any sense with Mother mode. Ships developing consciousness due to folklore is where it's at, amiright?
But yeah, screw things like maternal bonding and maternal attachment making sense for a mentally disturbed character like Big Mom whose had 85 children making any sense with Mother mode. Ships developing consciousness due to folklore is where it's at, amiright?
Literature has fluid and fixed rules, fundamentals that have to be preserved, and the rest is up to your imagination. There's a big difference between the story that you don't like and a story that is poorly written. A really bad story can be professionally written while a really good story can be poorly executed. Epic of Gilgamesh is one of the oldest examples of storytelling, at that time there were no rules or standards that we have today. Originally Epic of Gilgamesh was based on the life of the great sumerian King, it isn't a story on its own but rather the exaggerated version of the real history. The biggest advancements in literature have happened in the last 300/400 years, it is ridicules to bring up Epic of Gilgamesh and use it for your argument. If there were no rules in literature then we would have indeed never moved beyond Epic of Gilgamesh, but humans are smart creatures, although it took as some time but we figured out the human nature from which those exact rules drive from; just like the rules of physics drive from the mather nature. This things are interconnected, just like the psychologists use storytelling to understand human nature, the writers use human nature to understand storytelling.
I have a suspicion that you're desperately trying to look smart, I'd suggest you to stop doing that.
I have a suspicion that you're desperately trying to look smart, I'd suggest you to stop doing that.
Literature is not science, it doesn’t advance, it just changes in order to reflect the society, but society is made by humans, and there are traits that humans will always retain, thus every work of art that represents human nature is truly universal.
Dante and Shakespeare wrote 800 and 400 years ago and they are still the absolute peak of poetry and tragedy.
The peak of novel arguably came in the 19th century.
You’re claiming that Big Mom’s character falls apart for the fact that she has too many traits, but human themselves have often a plentiful of traits, and if you say that writers use human nature to understand storytelling then how can you conclude that Oda’s writing is objectively flawed when Big Mom herself, at least on a structural level, is written in accordance with some typical human characteristics?
Kid, Law, anyone do us all a favor and get rid of the plot device that is Big Meme, I will put you in my top 2 fave characters if you do that.
What happened with mother mode when Momo was being crucified and about to be executed, or kid Pudding where she was bullied by Big Mom?
Or the slaves Kaido told on her face he was gonna turn the entire Wano into a labor source?
I would be fine with this side of BM if this would be shown as BM's key features in WCI or even Wano during the Olin state, instead of amnesia writing it as mother mode. As you said, she's Big Mom, she has a shit ton of children, her having a side like this makes sense but if feels far too late for that to come up, I think this is the main issue here.
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What happened with mother mode when Momo was being crucified and about to be executed, or kid Pudding where she was bullied by Big Mom?
Or the slaves Kaido told on her face he was gonna turn the entire Wano into a labor source?
I would be fine with this side of BM if this would be shown as BM's key features in WCI or even Wano during the Olin state, instead of amnesia writing it as mother mode. As you said, she's Big Mom, she has a shit ton of children, her having a side like this makes sense but if feels far too late for that to come up, I think this is the main issue here.
Meh the “she big mom she has a lot of kids” excuse is weak.
big mom will never injure/harm or kill her kids for no reason. They are her future fighters and crew that will help her achieve her goals and become pirate queen ...they are just tools for her and in her POV it’s stupid to damage those tools for no reason.
big mom will never injure/harm or kill her kids for no reason. They are her future fighters and crew that will help her achieve her goals and become pirate queen ...they are just tools for her and in her POV it’s stupid to damage those tools for no reason.
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BM mother mode would never make sense because of her childs and grandchilds but because of her past only. Until now she doesn't understand what happenened at that day she ended up alone. Would make perfectly sense for her to be kind to kids near that age.
But like some already stated here, is too late for that. Literally no previous interations of BM supports that.
But like some already stated here, is too late for that. Literally no previous interations of BM supports that.
