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** Perhaps it didn't mattered, in the book, who he was calling. The central scene seems to be the fact he is calling someone in a moment of character or plot development, and maybe Karen was concentrating in that, to later figure out who it was he was calling, once the scene was done with the impact she needed. The scene maybe was supposed to have the resonance of a meeting with fate, and that's why Karen seemed so freaked when her phone rang, she was so engrossed with her writing.
** I believe the above is correct. Sometimes authors write out a scene that they know is important but they don't quit finish it because they're not sure how. Karen knew that book-Harold had to call someone, so she wrote the scene. Turns out he was calling her.
** I believe the above is correct. Sometimes authors write out a scene that they know is important but they don't quit finish it because they're not sure how. Karen knew that book-Harold had to call someone, so she wrote the scene. Turns out he was calling her.
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** Perhaps it didn't mattered, matter, in the book, who he was calling. The central scene seems to be the fact he is calling someone in a moment of character or plot development, and maybe Karen was concentrating in that, to later figure out who it was he was calling, once the scene was done with the impact she needed. The Maybe the scene maybe was supposed to have the resonance of a meeting with fate, and that's why Karen seemed so freaked when her phone rang, she was so engrossed with her writing.
** I believe the above is correct. Sometimes authors write out a scene that they know is important but they don'tquit quite finish it because they're not sure how. Karen knew that book-Harold had to call someone, so she wrote the scene. Turns out he was calling her.
** I believe the above is correct. Sometimes authors write out a scene that they know is important but they don't
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* {{Jaabi}}: How much of Harold's actions were being dictated by Karen? Her voice wasn't always present so I assumed he was in a way SequenceBreaking by trying to investigate this presence. She only seemed present during any normal, everyday actions he was taking. Think about this- who was he calling in Karen's written version? She can'tve been writing about him calling her... right?
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* {{Jaabi}}: How much of Harold's actions were being dictated by Karen? Her voice wasn't always present so I assumed he was in a way SequenceBreaking by trying to investigate this presence. She only seemed present during any normal, everyday actions he was taking. Think about this- who was he calling in Karen's written version? She can'tve couldn't have been writing about him calling her... right?
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** My guess was that the times when Harold didn't hear the voice, she was writing about the bus driver or the boy on the bike.
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** She's a formula writer, this isn't her first book where someone dies at the end, she's an established author who's SignatureStyle is to kill off the main character. People buy it to see how he dies. It's like watching a FinalDestination movie, you do it to see the new overly convoluted ways they come up with to take out the kids.
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** She's a formula writer, this isn't her first book where someone dies at the end, she's an established author who's SignatureStyle is to kill off the main character. People buy it to see how he dies. It's like watching a FinalDestination ''Film/FinalDestination'' movie, you do it to see the new overly convoluted ways they come up with to take out the kids.
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**There is a trope for that, it's called DeathAsComedy
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* Pretty minor, but what about that construction team that accidentally started demolishing the wrong building? The audience knows it was likely something Karen wrote to get the plot moving again, but realistically, this grave mistake not only cost a ton of property damage, but could have gotten someone seriously hurt. And the guy just shrugs it off with an 'Oops!'. I think we're looking at a lawsuit here.
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** Honestly speaking, if the death is due to the accident or, even more so, natural causes, the chance that a relative in a state of grief would act on such a finding rather than brush it off as a coincidence even if he/she gets to know about it is pretty dim (and it's unlikely that one person could ever learn that there was more than one such occurrence, if the characters are just plain people whose deaths were not reported in the media).
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** Honestly speaking, if If the death is due to the accident or, even more so, natural causes, the chance that a relative in a state of grief would act on such a finding rather than brush it off as a coincidence even if he/she gets to know about it is pretty dim (and it's unlikely that one person could ever learn that there was more than one such occurrence, if the characters are just plain people whose deaths were not reported in the media).
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** Honestly speaking, if the death is due to the accident or, even more so, natural causes, the chance that a relative in a state of grief would act on such a finding rather than brush it off as a coincidence even if he/she gets to know about it is pretty dim (and it's unlikely that one person could ever learn that there was more than one such occurrence, if the characters are just plain people whose deaths were not reported in the media).
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**** Might be seen as a case of ExactWords, actually. 'Cause she didn't write "He called someone". She wrote ''The phone rang''. And since it obviously couldn't have been Harold's phone, the typewriting machine assumed it was Karen's phone that had to ring...
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** He could be hoping against hope he has an UnreliableNarrator.
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** He could be hoping against hope he has an UnreliableNarrator.
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** Who says she did? She thinks she might have, but it's equally likely that Harold's situation is just a one-off occurrence.
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* If Karen really had killed all the other characters in her books, wouldn't the media have caught on at some point? After writing eight critically acclaimed novels that ended in the deaths of real people, surely someone related to one of the said characters would have contacted the police?
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** Hilbert is not just a literary expert, but possibly her biggest fan. Fans can embellish the quality of things they like, even if they're professionals.
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** Because the revelation that all of this power was hers was traumatizing, and she had to consider the possibility that all of those protagonists of previous novels were also real people that she effectively murdered. Realizations like that don't usually put people in exploitative moods.
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* If Karen knew everything she wrote came true, why didn't she exploit that to get everything she wanted? She could have written ''anything''.
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** I believe the above is correct. Sometimes authors write out a scene that they know is important but they don't quit finish it because they're not sure how. Karen knew that book-Harold had to call someone, so she wrote the scene. Turns out he was calling her.
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** The above is correct.
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**Professor Hilbert specifically said that in comedies characters fall in love, usually with a someone introduced after the beginning of the story, who starts out hating the main character
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** I thought they went over this in the movie? Karen isn't ambivalent about saving Harold as much as she is utterly shocked and appalled at the idea that she might be responsible for someone's death (and that this might have happened before, since her protagonists always die). The literature professor is the one that encourages both herself and Harold to go through with it... his reasoning is that it is such an amazing, life-changing, possibly society-impacting story that it's worth more than Harold's life. (Which honestly is mildly appalling to me, but we'll give him the benefit of the doubt that it's the sort of book that could stop someone from slitting their wrists.) It's ultimately Harold that really pushes her to do it after reading the draft himself, because he wants to save the boy's life and he wants his life to have meaning. It seems to disturb her quite a bit that he's basically asking her to kill him, but it makes her actually consider it.
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** You only die once, make it spectacular.
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** Really, someone ''saving'' a small child won't get ''nearly'' the kind of press that the kid getting killed would have been. If it bleeds, it leads, and news about people helping each other just plain doesn't go as far as news about horrible things happening.
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** This also assumes that his saving the boy got national attention as opposed to just local news. He could be little more than a quick blurb on the evening news unless they tried to upsell a particular lean like parents not monitoring their children, traffic safety, or placing the blame on the bus driver.
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** This troper took it as them seeing the kind of impact his death would have on everyone around him and deciding that, if you have to die, this would be a great legacy to know you are leaving behind. You have a guy that has done nothing of consequence, and he sees that he might actually be able to make the world a better place with his sacrifice. Also, I got the impression that Karen didn't want to kill him because she feared the power she had; she only sat down to write the new ending because Harold told her to follow her outline. In the end, she couldn't bring herself to see it as anything but premeditated murder and reworked the ending.
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*** Right, because tragedies ''never'' feature romances. Oh, and how exactly does he forget the bit of information that caused him to seek help in the first place? Or, for that matter, when did the lit professor forget that tragedies can and do feature [[ComicRelief comedic scenes or moments]]?
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*** Right, because tragedies ''never'' feature romances. Oh, and how exactly does he forget the bit of information that caused him to seek help in the first place? Or, for that matter, when did the lit professor forget that tragedies can and do feature [[ComicRelief comedic scenes or moments]]?moments?
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** She was driving the bus at the end, I believe.
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* What exactly is the role of the black woman in search of a job?
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* Hey, wait. Why the hell isn't the world besieged by amazing amounts of book characters? I mean, why can't any other characters be real? Could Darth Vader exist from the novelizations of Star Wars?
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* Hey, wait. Why the hell isn't the world besieged by amazing amounts of book characters? I mean, why can't any other characters be real? Could Darth Vader exist from the novelizations of Star Wars?Wars?
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*** This troper doesn't know that much about biology or doctoring, but wouldn't the doctors in the hospital give him a shot against any harmful germs from the watch when he was in the hospital.
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*** Discounting things like the watch's battery, the germs most likely to be on a piece of watch are likely to be the exact same germs that are already on the person's skin, and therefore something the body should be able to handle.
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*** Yes, but bullets are hot when they enter. THings as hot as flying bullets tend to kill off germs. A piece of wristwatch would still have germs on it, so an infection is still likely.
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*** Yes, but bullets are hot when they enter. THings Things as hot as flying bullets tend to kill off germs. A piece of wristwatch would still have germs on it, so an infection is still likely.
