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carduinal-cyn (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded)
2024-01-08 19:39:30

I mean, it's still narm even if the line was in the original novel... it sounds like the scene's context has been changed. I haven't seen this show though, correct me if I'm wrong and Eleanor really is there across the room.

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iamconstantine Since: Aug, 2014
2024-01-08 19:43:31

In the show, Eleanor isn't in the room at all. Theo feels someone crawl into her bed and hold her hand and just assumes it's Eleanor. Then she turns around, finds no one there, and asks aloud (to herself and no one else) "Who's hand was I holding?"

ArthurEld Since: May, 2014
2024-01-08 19:51:37

Nothing about the original example says what's funny about the scene, though.

It just comes off like nitpicking. Narm has to be "poor attempt at drama/pathos/seriousness is executed so badly it becomes funny." Not just "I think this is bad writing".

As is, it seems like a complaint about a very common device in TV-characters speaking aloud when, logically, they would just be thinking.

Edited by ArthurEld
carduinal-cyn (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded)
2024-01-08 19:54:34

Maybe someone could settle this by editing it to say something like:

  • Narm: Episode 3 begins with an unsettling scene of someone crawling into a young Theo's bed and snuggling up to her. She thinks it's Nellie, but when she turns, no one is there. The music goes eerie, and the camera creeps in to Theo... who then asks aloud, "Whose hand was I holding?". In the original novel, Eleanor was across the room from Theo at the time, so this line made more sense. But in the show, Theo asks this question to herself and no one else, as though the audience needed to be told why the scene was scary.

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ArthurEld Since: May, 2014
2024-01-08 20:02:28

Same problem. It's just a complaint.

Why is it funny?

If a Narm example doesn't explain that, it isn't an example.

carduinal-cyn (Experienced, Not Yet Jaded)
2024-01-08 20:08:03

In that case, yeah, it's not really narm. My bad. The entire entry could get zapped in that case. The original edit, and the justifying edit/note thing that was added in later.

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