Quote Originally Posted by Turnintino View Post
Notice that I said "according to the narrative's logic", "I'm not saying that anyone has to like it", and "I agree that [the writers] overcompensated".
You can re-highlight what you said all you want, my point is that every point of the writers intention doesn't have anything to do with writing a Mary Sue at all, but rather the execution of the intentions. Everything within those intentions can still be written in a way to make a compelling character without needing to resort to this... excrement we got. Not to mention, when critiquing a work, it's usually not considered what the author wanted, because all that really matters is what the author delivered. The message sent matters little to the message received.