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wildfire393 t1_ja11b8a wrote

Reply to In literature, shows, or stories, if they tell you the plan, it's not going to work. If they don't tell you the plan, it's definitely going to work. by notjadedyet

It doesn't make sense to explain an entire plan and then execute it exactly the way it was explained. That's just poor storytelling. There's a lot of redundancy and no real tension.

If the plan is going to fail, it makes sense to spell it out beforehand, as you can then see more clearly where the breakdown of the plan happens and what goes wrong, without having to take you out of the action to elaborate.

If the plan is going to succeed, the tension comes from trying to figure out how they're going to beat the impossible odds. If everything goes according to plan as they laid it out, that tension is lost. So either you'll get the dialogue of explaining the plan playing over it actually happening, to preserve some mystery, or there will be a surprise reveal that goes counter what it seemed like the plan was supposed to be.

These are obviously tropes, but they're tropes for a reason.

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Clewyaa t1_ja0yn23 wrote

Reply to Dad jokes are from dads, Mom jokes are about mothers by PrestigiousWaffles

Yo mama so fat she sent me a pic last year and it's still printing Yo mama so fat her meat is Wagyu Yo mama so fat you could play golf on her belly Yo mama se fat when she walks in front of the tv you miss the whole season Yo mama so lazy it took her 9 month to finish a joke Yo mama so fat her two but cheeks are in different time zones Yo mama so fat she sweats melted butter

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