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<blockquote data-quote="Kahuna Burger" data-source="post: 3507541" data-attributes="member: 8439">hrm, you say that like its a good thing.... To some extent obviously it is, being fully predicatable gets boring - but being fully UNpredictable starts to eventually bore me as well. there's a difference between &quot;I wasn't sure what was going to happen and I feel X about it being this possible result I had considered&quot;, &quot;I didn't see that coming (but in retrospect I could have, that explains X in the past)&quot; and &quot;I didn't see that coming because it was completely unforshadowed and deliberately forshadowed against, not to mention illogical.&quot;Uncertainty is good, suprize can be good, &quot;GOTCHA!&quot; is not so much. The more OOTS goes for gotcha, the less I care what will happen next - why be invested in the illogical? At its best I can predict some possible outcomes, not be sure which will happen and occasionally be fully suprized by something that is still logically consistent. (this particular strip is reasonably logical, but many &quot;twists&quot; have not been or have depended on giving the audience intentionally misleading clues.)</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Kahuna Burger, post: 3507541, member: 8439"] hrm, you say that like its a good thing.... To some extent obviously it is, being fully predicatable gets boring - but being fully UNpredictable starts to eventually bore me as well. there's a difference between "I wasn't sure what was going to happen and I feel X about it being this possible result I had considered", "I didn't see that coming (but in retrospect I could have, that explains X in the past)" and "I didn't see that coming because it was completely unforshadowed and deliberately forshadowed against, not to mention illogical." Uncertainty is good, suprize can be good, "GOTCHA!" is not so much. The more OOTS goes for gotcha, the less I care what will happen next - why be invested in the illogical? At its best I can predict some possible outcomes, not be sure which will happen and occasionally be fully suprized by something that is still logically consistent. (this particular strip is reasonably logical, but many "twists" have not been or have depended on giving the audience intentionally misleading clues.) [/QUOTE]

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