Chekhov's Gun
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Chekhov's Gun
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#2He used a phaser
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#3Well, if you want a much more in-depth discussion (at least if you follow the links...) with examples than Wikipedia, you could do a lot worse than checking tvtropes.org.[1]
P.S. Sorry in advance for the loss in productivity to anyone that clicks though and doesn't know what they're in for...
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#4I saw this a while ago, and knew it would come back to haunt me.
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#5Well, if you want a much more in-depth discussion (at least if you follow the links...) with examples than Wikipedia, you could do a lot worse than checking tvtropes.org.[1] P.S. Sorry in advance for the loss in productivity to anyone that clicks though and doesn't know what they're in for... 1: https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/ChekhovsGun
+1 for all statements regarding TVTropes. It isn't "just a click", trust.
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#6He used a phaser
Wrong thread.
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#7He used a phaser
phaser? I hardly know her.
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#9I wonder how this plays out in mystery stories where there is what seems to be intentional misdirection where you are lead to believe someone might be the killer, but they're not.
Granted some things like "nobody liked him" could be still relevant to the overall story, but particularly in film or TV I find those bits of misdirection common, but also kind of annoying.
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#10Nice to have a term for this. Thanks.
I used to think that it would be nice to have characters and plots that didn't really matter in a story, until I saw it happen a few times and I didn't like it at all.
Guess he was on to something.