I'm of a mind that anything can pulled off well if enough care and flair given to it.
With amnesia, I think that I would want the person using it to... well, it's hard to put into words but... give it proper gravitas and weight to it, I guess? I would expect it to have some sort of solid relevance to the character and their development. Like, how they handle it - does it nag them to no end and so a lot of their waking time is trying to figure out what they've forgotten, or do they decide to start anew and leave that forgotten past behind them?
In the case of both, I would figure there'd also be plot points at some juncture where someone from that past shows up. Shake things up a bit - either helping (or misleading) the prior type that wants desperately to recover their lost history or throwing a wrench in the works of the person who's just trying to move on. But in either case it would need to be a slow, building thing - not a new blast from the past every week or something.
I guess, in the basest sense... I have no issue with a character having amnesia. It's how they resolve that fact - what they do with it and what comes from it. And that it plays a hefty role in the character in general, since what is a person but a summation of their experiences?
With amnesia, I think that I would want the person using it to... well, it's hard to put into words but... give it proper gravitas and weight to it, I guess? I would expect it to have some sort of solid relevance to the character and their development. Like, how they handle it - does it nag them to no end and so a lot of their waking time is trying to figure out what they've forgotten, or do they decide to start anew and leave that forgotten past behind them?
In the case of both, I would figure there'd also be plot points at some juncture where someone from that past shows up. Shake things up a bit - either helping (or misleading) the prior type that wants desperately to recover their lost history or throwing a wrench in the works of the person who's just trying to move on. But in either case it would need to be a slow, building thing - not a new blast from the past every week or something.
I guess, in the basest sense... I have no issue with a character having amnesia. It's how they resolve that fact - what they do with it and what comes from it. And that it plays a hefty role in the character in general, since what is a person but a summation of their experiences?
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