I don’t know why I’m writing this.\u00a0 I’m exhausted and I need to go to bed.\u00a0 But I was just thinking about this and wanted to record my thoughts.<\/p>\n
There’s a moment in the show House<\/em> when Dr. House wants to drug his friend Wilson.\u00a0 So he gets two coffee cups and puts them on his desk.\u00a0 He drugs one.\u00a0 Then, when Wilson comes in, House holds out the cup that isn’t drugged for him.\u00a0 Wilson, knowing how House can be mischievous, takes the other cup, the cup that actually is <\/em>drugged, the cup House knew<\/em> Wilson would take.<\/p>\n This makes House seem somewhat clever.\u00a0 He knew<\/em> Wilson would suspect something with the cup he held out, he knew which cup Wilson would ultimately choose!\u00a0 How clever!<\/p>\n NOT!<\/p>\n Because Wilson didn’t really have a choice.\u00a0 The writer chose for him.\u00a0 The writer could have made the scene more convoluted.\u00a0 What if House held out the drugged cup because he knew Wilson would suspect something, but knew that Wilson would also know the he would know that he would suspect something.\u00a0 But, what if Wilson also knew that?\u00a0 And that?\u00a0 And that and that and that…<\/p>\n The point should be pretty clear.\u00a0 Characters don’t really know<\/em> each other at all, because there’s really nothing to know.\u00a0 They’re all just fictional characters.\u00a0 So when a character seems to be clever by guessing or accurately predicting another character’s future actions, that’s not cleverness, that’s just a writer cheat.\u00a0 Not that it’s not a valid cheat, it can work fine if it’s not overused.\u00a0 But it is a bit of a cheat, yes?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" I don’t know why I’m writing this.\u00a0 I’m exhausted and I need to go to bed.\u00a0 But I was just thinking about this and wanted to record my thoughts. There’s a moment in the show House when Dr. House wants to drug his friend Wilson.\u00a0 So he gets two coffee […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"spay_email":"","jetpack_publicize_message":"","jetpack_is_tweetstorm":false,"jetpack_publicize_feature_enabled":true},"categories":[4],"tags":[74],"jetpack_publicize_connections":[],"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","jetpack_shortlink":"https:\/\/wp.me\/p7gI4B-95","_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563"}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=563"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":564,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/563\/revisions\/564"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=563"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=563"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wizardwalk.com\/newblather\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=563"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}