My wife went to school for English lit and is a professional writer. I cannot get a plot twist past her notice. It sucks so much. There was a video game that featured a serial killer (no spoilers, so no title) and I NEVER would have guessed who it was. I played it and I was shocked at the twist. Then I had my wife play it and in the first five minutes of the game she was like “That man is evil and I don’t trust him” and I was like WTF!!! He’s like nice and friendly and stuff. How the fuck does she do it. I spent hours having to gaslight her about how correct her prediction was. She also always knows when someone is going to die. I have to tell her not to comment predictions about movies because she’s correct at least 70% of the time.
I find foreshadowing and death flags are obvious the second time around and wonder how I missed them. I could see someone getting really good at noticing them, but I feel like that would ruin every show for me
My brain likes meta-analyzing everything and something like a shooter game basically looks often like Shooting Gallery A -> Guiding Light -> Safety Hall -> Shooting Gallery B -> Drop Gate and so on. Same with shows or movies, red flag drops and foreshadowing are so visible to me that I don’t really watch anything unless it’s something absurd, or very unique. All films feel the same, because you see the same structure, bare character archetypes, the same Disney-style writing, etc.
I like older games for that reason, because back then you didn’t have things like online gamedev conferences where they teach you how to use a ruler, and often level designers were just random junior programmers or ex-modders that thought “this would be so sick” and made really iconic designs that are often unpredictable
Edit: I now realise that people like things like Cruelty Squad and Death Stranding for this exact reason too
This is why I don’t like watching anything with my friends. My husband and I like to pause the movie/show every so often and theorise. When we talk it through we can usually figure it out, and that’s obviously not fun for anyone else.
My wife went to school for English lit and is a professional writer. I cannot get a plot twist past her notice. It sucks so much. There was a video game that featured a serial killer (no spoilers, so no title) and I NEVER would have guessed who it was. I played it and I was shocked at the twist. Then I had my wife play it and in the first five minutes of the game she was like “That man is evil and I don’t trust him” and I was like WTF!!! He’s like nice and friendly and stuff. How the fuck does she do it. I spent hours having to gaslight her about how correct her prediction was. She also always knows when someone is going to die. I have to tell her not to comment predictions about movies because she’s correct at least 70% of the time.
I find foreshadowing and death flags are obvious the second time around and wonder how I missed them. I could see someone getting really good at noticing them, but I feel like that would ruin every show for me
My brain likes meta-analyzing everything and something like a shooter game basically looks often like Shooting Gallery A -> Guiding Light -> Safety Hall -> Shooting Gallery B -> Drop Gate and so on. Same with shows or movies, red flag drops and foreshadowing are so visible to me that I don’t really watch anything unless it’s something absurd, or very unique. All films feel the same, because you see the same structure, bare character archetypes, the same Disney-style writing, etc.
I like older games for that reason, because back then you didn’t have things like online gamedev conferences where they teach you how to use a ruler, and often level designers were just random junior programmers or ex-modders that thought “this would be so sick” and made really iconic designs that are often unpredictable
Edit: I now realise that people like things like Cruelty Squad and Death Stranding for this exact reason too
Something something thematic conventions
This is why I don’t like watching anything with my friends. My husband and I like to pause the movie/show every so often and theorise. When we talk it through we can usually figure it out, and that’s obviously not fun for anyone else.
Talking a bit… OK… pausing it to talk not OK
I think I know the game and my wife did the literal exact same thing. Couldn’t even gaslight it, but to be fair there were at least other twists.
Hahahaha I do the same, what type of autism does she have? I got my spergs to guide me to ilumination.
(even tho when it really counts irl it doesn’t seem to work)