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Sandy87
Since: Nov, 2010
8th Apr, 2011 07:46:03 PM
The first one (seemingly-good resolution midway through show) is Not so Fast, Bucko!. Not sure about the second one, and the third is an example of Genre Savvy.
Sort of a meta-trope; I can think of a couple of examples that would best illustrate. First example: when watching an episode of House, M.D., House declares the patient has Disease X, and this seems reasonable - but since you know there are 20 minutes left to the show, you also know that this diagnosis is false.
Second example: You're writing a multiple-choice exam where so far, all your answers have been A, B or C, with not a single D. Then comes the final question, where two answers sound equally reasonable - you pick D, because you figure, hey, there must be a D answer in here somewhere.
Third example: I was handed a text in an American Studies class, and told to guess the author. It was about how cities and industry were evil, ambition was a bad thing, and farmers practiced the chosen occupation of God; I guessed one of the Founding Fathers, since people like to take such seemingly shocking propositions and reveal, "Guess what, this guy you think is a lunatic was a Founding Father!" just for the shock value (turns out I was right! It was Jefferson).
Not sure what this is. Genre Savvy brilliance? Medium Savvy? What is this?