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<blockquote data-quote="Dungeonman" data-source="post: 6293557" data-attributes="member: 6775975">Actually, repeating pemerton's usage of the term &quot;genre blindness&quot; may have confused the issue for me the last several posts. It may have a more specific nuance that's maybe parallel to but different from my original angle about self-awareness and rational relatable motivations<a href="http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GenreBlindness" target="_blank">http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GenreBlindness</a>&quot;Furthermore,&nbsp; some stories in some genres really couldn't function at all if the&nbsp; characters displayed an innate and complete understanding of what genre&nbsp; they were in and exactly how they should act at all times within a story&nbsp; in said genre if they want to avoid trouble — which in most cases would&nbsp; also rob the story of tension and drama, since if the character knows&nbsp; exactly what to do to avoid trouble and conflict in their particular&nbsp; story, they'll do it, and consequently have an easy, trouble-free life,&nbsp; and... why are we watching again?&quot;</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Dungeonman, post: 6293557, member: 6775975"] Actually, repeating pemerton's usage of the term "genre blindness" may have confused the issue for me the last several posts. It may have a more specific nuance that's maybe parallel to but different from my original angle about self-awareness and rational relatable motivations [URL]http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/GenreBlindness[/URL] "Furthermore, some stories in some genres really couldn't function at all if the characters displayed an innate and complete understanding of what genre they were in and exactly how they should act at all times within a story in said genre if they want to avoid trouble — which in most cases would also rob the story of tension and drama, since if the character knows exactly what to do to avoid trouble and conflict in their particular story, they'll do it, and consequently have an easy, trouble-free life, and... why are we watching again?" [/QUOTE]

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