Venkatesh Rao ☀️
@vgr
I have kobayashi-maru-ed away my ability to enjoy tv mysteries entirely because I now recognize too many out-of-narrative tells 😢
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Matt Bateman
@matt
Same. It is possible to be a combination of genre savvy and production savvy to the point where you can almost directly perceive the tropes and other cues. Best example of this is movie version of Tinker Tailor. So many converging giveaways of the “surprise” ending, from tropes to casting decisions
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