The frequent use of stock characters and situations is one sin. Japan's low crime rate seems to surge as literally cutthroat villains use samurai swords to whack people and smaller blades when they just want to whittle a little. Even the gun-averse may be get impatient and think, for goodness sake, just shoot the guy. Its mistakes are classics. Setlowe once was a vice president at ABC, so he's accustomed to a medium forgiving of bad dialogue.
Actors can partially compensate for inadequate scripts through convincing delivery.
Viewers are distracted by visuals, and no matter how goofy a line is in a TV show or movie, somebody is saying it. A reader, on the other hand, depends solely on the words themselves for believability. Contrived discussion Another problem is that Setlowe tries to sneak background information into dialogue. Setlowe should have spent more pages mining his theme of crosscultural sexual jealousy among men. Common to the human experience is a mandate, from one group to another, saying don't mess with our women, an order that only manufactures or intensifies the other group's desire to have sex with the forbidden females.