Wednesday, June 29, 2022

[Chinese BG novel] 我是科技之光[快穿] / The light of technology

Written by 十尾兔 this is a cool-type story about a scientist who travels worlds and changes plots with the knowledge of technology. But no matter how cool it sounds I actually was not impressed by it. Maybe because I was once too impressed by "God of Knowledge" and even if it's wrong to compare BG to BL, but honestly these stories are very close in their essense to me and both have a very high IQ protagonists, but for a reason I really got bored with this novel. Maybe because God of Knowledge manages to put forward not only a twisty plot that MC has to reverse, but also that we have distinct lover figure, romance development and overall plot development. Here we do get a strong female scientist - Baizhi - but these novels are more about her and her progress, that we actually have little about her as a person, even quirks of her personality are not really shown, she's just always into research that's all her life. The thing is, you can't call it achievements, although there is implication of her not only putting forward ideas, but actually push others in the direction of progress. But her character starts off basically trying to reach all branches of technology at least a little bit. What I particularly liked about GoT in comparison is that MC actually used technology in every world according to situation, not trying to reach the top in all fields. And maybe this is the point of novels that have a "strong female" tag, but these novels either have no ML in general or even if female lead has a relationship in this world with someone it might be like her playing with feelings or not serious at all, anyway I don't really get it.

The other very disappointing part of first three worlds I've read is that these stories in general are like copy-pastes of each other. Even if settings are different, but it's like always the betrayed cannon fodder girl, completely innocent soul that got entangled with others and got this bad ending. Like in most basic cliche stories of course villains get the whole bad ending set with being poor, looking older than they are, suffering etc. So when I finished the 3rd arc I basically lost all interest in this novel all-together, since what is the point of reading the same story over and over again with nothing new on the table? And I can't say that the writing is horrible or that it's unreadable, it's just not that interesting to me.

Very likely I might drop it without completing due to extinguished interest.

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