[ SECRET POST #3206 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #3206 ⌋

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Comments

Re: Inspired by #7

[ketita]

I've personally never seen it done well.
I think it also has to do with the fact that by and large, most people are not going to give tons of credence to a dream, and they won't let it really /change their life/ or anything. You wake up and go "wow, that was a weird dream" and move on.

Re: Inspired by #7

[sarillia]

I was thinking that when I wrote my comment but really how many things in fiction are significant that would be completely forgotten in real life? Why have higher standards for this one?

Re: Inspired by #7

[ketita]

Hmm. You raise an interesting point.
I think it's that for most other insignificant things that are presented as very important in fiction, the story takes the time to convince you that this thing is actually meaningful to the character.
But typically the "it was a dream" is a twist that comes at the end. We just went through a whole process with the character, and then they wake up and yawn and that's it. You don't get the feeling of gravity or the story going anywhere with it.
Besides, in general when this twist comes, it doesn't actually improve or add much to the story. It's a copout of a mediocre ending, and its only purpose is to be a twist. Perhaps one in a thousand manage to make it be a meaningful twist (Alice in Wonderland? but the whole story there is dreamlike in general).

Re: Inspired by #7

[sarillia]

I can agree with the general principle that a twist should offer more than simply being a twist.

Part of this goes back to me being weird. I find it incredibly easy to ignore parts of a story that I don't like (to the point where sometimes I honestly forget about things that I wouldn't like if I remembered they were there) so if that happens then I just ignore the part where they woke up and enjoy the rest of the story for its own sake. The tacked on ending really doesn't diminish the rest of it for me.

Hey, what about the end of Newhart?

[(Anonymous)]

That was awesome.