History Headscratchers / StrangerThanFiction

* Maybe it defeats the purpose, but why couldn't Karen just write her original ending ''after'' saving Harold? If the story is over, it seems unlikely he'd be trapped back under her "control", so to speak. Or would the same little boy somehow end up in front of a bus in front of Harold again?

** It's not uncommon for bits of foreign material to wind up inside of people's bodies for various reasons (from injuries to amateur tattoos and the like). There'd be a risk of infection early on, but the open wound itself even without the piece of the watch would cause that. By the time his injuries healed, any bacteria would either have been cleaned or killed by antibiotics (possibly after causing an infection, which the hospital would treat), so as long as the material itself isn't toxic it wouldn't be a continued risk. It being that close to an artery would probably be a bigger concern, since it's possible an otherwise minor injury later could damage the artery again, though how likely that is probably depends on the watch piece's shape and exactly where it is.

** I feel like it's something a bit more simpler than these questions: ''Karen's book is shorter than the movie.'' In other words, the only parts that Karen actually wrote where the things she narrated. Everything else can be assumed by the reader afterwards. The parts in between her narrations are {{Timeskip}}s. What do you think characters do during timeskips?

* I feel like it's something a bit more simpler than these questions: ''Karen's book is shorter than the movie.'' In other words, the only parts that Karen actually wrote where the things she narrated. Everything else can be assumed by the reader afterwards. The parts in between her narrations are {{Timeskip}}s.

** I read somewhere that in most comedies, we laugh because of the characters misfortunes- even though it isn't funny to them. Just think of all the times a character had something bad happen to them and you laughed at it. Then suddenly, his idea of him being in a comedy is quite logical. Alternatively or both: he thinks his life is so pathetically pitty that anyone watching it would just laugh

** I read somewhere that in most comedies, we laugh because of the characters misfortunes- even though it isn't funny to them. Just think of all the times a character had something bad happen to them and you laughed at it. Then suddenly, his idea of him being in a comedy is quite logical. Alternatively or both: [[HeroicSelfDeprication he thinks his life is so pathetically pitty that anyone watching it would just laugh]].

** I read somewhere that in most comedies, we laugh because of the characters misfortunes- even though it isn't funny to them. Just think of all the times a character had something bad happen to them and you laughed at it. Then suddenly, his idea of him being in a comedy is quite logical.

*** That's right. For all we know, for those who have read and enjoyed her past books, a character dying would be a trope, not a cliché. It'd be no different from Agatha Christie writing a mystery where someone dies (she wrote a lot of mysteries which involves deaths of characters), or John Grisham writing stories that involves the law, lawyers and/or court cases (a majority of his work does), or Stephen King writing stories that involving supernatural elements (most of his stuff does), or William Shakespeare writing in two different sets of genres: tragedies and comedies (he did). Since she works in writing tragedies where the leads die in the end with a fulfilling story that leads up to it, it may just be a trope that she's known for by those who read her works.

** {{Case}}: It seems Karen is only writing the plot-advancing stuff. The other stuff that Harold is doing isn't in the book at all, at least not in the first draft. For this to really make sense, fate/luck has arranged it so that Karen will have writer's block whenever Harold is doing something non-plot-advancing, and/or vice-versa. When Harold starts seeking out Karen, his shenanigans start getting plot-important, so fate's only choice is to act as a voice in Karen's head to have her write about it even before he calls her. Fate could have alternatively forced Harold to forget about calling her and pushed along with the story as Karen intended, but that would have dissatisfied even higher powers than fate -- the writers, producers and viewers. Aside: it is heavily implied that other people did die to Karen's stories; those stories went as Karen planned because she's a recluse and those people didn't have access to what they needed to contact her: tax records.

** {{Jaabi}}: He believed it was a comedy because he's a tax-man falling in love with one of his clients. He was probably too caught up in the experience to remember that bit of information. (Or the script writers forgot. The movie writers that is.)

** {{Case}}: He's clinging onto what little hope he has: an UnreliableNarrator.

* {{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 couldn't have been writing about him calling her... right?

** {{Case}}: It seems Karen is only writing the plot-advancing stuff. The other stuff that Harold is doing isn't in the book at all, at least not in the first draft. For this to really make sense, fate\luck has arranged it so that Karen will have writer's block whenever Harold is doing something non-plot-advancing, and\or vice-versa. When Harold starts seeking out Karen, his shenanigans start getting plot-important, so fate's only choice is to act as a voice in Karen's head to have her write about it even before he calls her. Fate could have alternatively forced Harold to forget about calling her and pushed along with the story as Karen intended, but that would have dissatisfied even higher powers than fate -- the writers, producers and viewers. Aside: it is heavily implied that other people did die to Karen's stories; those stories went as Karen planned because she's a recluse and those people didn't have access to what they needed to contact her: tax records.

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