Thread:Trigger009/@comment-995426-20150803034742/@comment-995426-20150803151607

Actually, I don't think I was reading too much into what I was seeing, since I wasn't the only one of my friends totally seeing that. We really were seeing it.

But this actually makes me think of something else you cautioned me about&mdash;how we sometimes can't confirm what we observe without the creators confirming it separately. Remember all that talk about measuring an in-show timeline, and other deductions? The problem is, fiction need not be realism. Fiction is fiction&mdash;whatever the writer wants it to be. This was once famously addressed by TV producer Donald P. Bellisario, and is now called Bellisario's Maxim&mdash;"don't examine this too closely".