Posted on 05/22/2016 1:49:48 PM PDT by smokingfrog
The weakness of your argument is that in TV the guy didn’t really do it, so none of the actors have any guilt to hide.
I’m watching a bunch of reruns of NYPD BLUE and I’d bet the plots couldn’t be used today. In one the murderer was a muslim convert.
I’m better at it than my husband, although he is more intelligent than I.
My wife is much more empathetic than I am and she can usually nail the ending within minutes.
They did that on Blue Bloods, but it allowed the devout Muslims to fret about the stupid blonde convert who was committing terror acts they would NEVER commit.
Same here. Back in the day the couple would kiss and you knew what was going to happen. Now they have to show us.
Oh, yeah. In this age, how can any sentient guy say something like that and expect to get away with it?
If the writers were female itd be all about feelings and crying and the show would last 2 hour and wed basically be watching every Lifetime drama ever
They follow a pattern.
Many times, on certain dramas, I can point out who the killer will end up being.
Occasionally, the honor get split when there is more than one involved in the killing.
It has more to do with recognizing the pattern than following the clues.
Also, when certain low-key actors show up, you just know they are the culprit.
I call myself The King of Formula. (I spent too many hours watching television series and movies growing up.)
I now speak of Formula and Meta-Formula:
Formula: The intrinsic pattern (of which you speak).
Example: The Sixth Sense.
I avoided all spoilers and went in cold. As both a horror movie and war film fan, I knew A) The obvious twist would be to make him a dead person; B) I knew that a gut-shot person has little chance of survival without immediate attention. I hence got no suspense and little enjoyment from watching the movie laboriously play out. I was bored.
Meta-Formula: The extrinsic pattern (of which you also speak).
Example: The Hunger Games: Mockingjay, Parts I & II.
As soon as I knew that they cast Julianne Moore as Alma Coin, I knew that they would violate the character from the book. In the book, she is totally ruthless, detached, and utterly unsympathetic to Katniss Everdeen. In the movie, she was portrayed as initially sympathetic and open minded, and somewhat conflicted. I knew they would do this because Julianne Moore is a flaming leftist and a media darling; they would never cast her in such a role if the script would make her completely repulsive.
Knowing too much of how Hollywood operates really lessens the ability to be entertained.
Then of course there are the home security ads, where it’s always a white guy trying to break into the house.
“she would have smelled the guilt oozing from Cain and immediately known what he had done”
I always thought Cain got a raw deal. Sheepherder offers a sheep and God likes it. Farmer offers his crop, and that’s somehow no good. It just ain’t right....
“Why men are best at guessing endings of TV crime dramas”
Because:
1. Men are criminals at heart?
2. Men think like criminals?
2. The crimes that are depicted are gender biased?
First motive is $$$, second is power, third is sex.
Not much gets past the $$$.
You can eliminate someone with lack of opportunity...i.e. they were in jail, on an airplane or already dead.
I watch wayyyyyy too much crime TV.
BA
I was going to post something similar. The white, middle-class, Christian guy will obviously be the killer, and it will take the black/female detective to prove it against the skepticism of his/her white, male boss who no doubt suspects the innocent gay/ethnic suspect is the real killer.
Yawn, so easy, so obvious.
Henry has been surreptitiously listening to Philip and Elizabeth’s conversations with Paige. He knows everything that Paige knows.
He’s going to tell everything to Stan, who is secretly tempted to kill Oleg as revenge for what happened to special agent Gaad, but of course Oleg had nothing to do with it even if he hasn’t been preoccupied with Tatania.
Stan will bust Philip and Elizabeth. Gabriel and the older woman will just disappear. The younger woman who runs the spy room will be arrested by a canine officer from the local pd.
Martha will be repatriated to the US but Stan, who has been promoted into Gaad’s job because the first guy to replace Gaad was a putz, rescues her from culpability by bringing all of Philip’s evil to light.
William will be accidentally on purpose infected with some cultivated bacteria and die a horrible death.
Stan will also adopt Henry and be made Paige’s legal guardian as she has to the University of Virginia to major in theology.
Matthew, having come out of his shell, will go to the naval academy and eventually will become an FBI agent like his dad.
Philip and Elizabeth get convicted of espionage and numerous counts of murder. The last anyone sees of them is as they are being taken into the subbasement level of the supermax.
During the trial Elizabeth’s treachery with the Korean dude comes to light, and he and his wife and kids live happily ever after.
No..its because writers are predictable and most men know it
I sure know i can see a hack writer setup a mile away
Some times I can guess first but my wife is no slouch - she has a quick mind and the ability to analyze while enjoying. She often points out flaws in the story as they appear because it irks her that some producers/directors are so sloppy.
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