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Permanut

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7. Still pushing Chekhov's Gun..

Reply to sakabatou (Reply #3)

Wed Jul 5, 2023, 08:05 PM

Jul 2023

If,say, long ago Aaron made a little sketch of something, Amy acquired it - out of the trash, some trivial way, kept it and framed it, and still has it. If we contrive a way for Aaron to see it, maybe an aha moment could be written in.

Okay, that's another two cents, I'm up to four cents now.

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I might run this with a Chekhov's Gun.. Permanut Jul 2023 #1

As far as I know, there's no Chekov's Gun sakabatou Jul 2023 #4

To what degree is truth presented in the story that you have in mind ? Tetrachloride Jul 2023 #2

The story has been presented already, so I'm going to use a generic example sakabatou Jul 2023 #3

that happened to me. totally blanked out on a person Tetrachloride Jul 2023 #5

That's how it felt to me sakabatou Jul 2023 #6

Still pushing Chekhov's Gun.. Permanut Jul 2023 #7

There's no Chekhov's Gun to my knowledge in the actual show. sakabatou Jul 2023 #8

MC is floundering. loses sense of self LuvLoogie Jul 2023 #9

That sounds like something that'd happen in the first season as character establishment sakabatou Jul 2023 #10

Well you'd essentially be deconstructing MC LuvLoogie Jul 2023 #12

That isn't what happens within the story. sakabatou Jul 2023 #13

My own personal fix sakabatou Jul 2023 #11