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* Sometimes the author is dissatisfied and rebels against the underlying premise. Changes to the basic premise to make it "consistent" or "relevant" (due to [[Cerebus Syndrome]] or [[Executive Meddling]]) will require a [[Continuity Reboot]] or a total [[Retool]] of the premise. Compare [[They Wasted a Perfectly Good Plot]].
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Many [[Real Life]] theories about the Anthropic Principle rely on notions of [[The Multiverse]] and probable alternate universes (which do not need to [[Mind Screw|actually exist]] to be considered alternate universes, since it makes little practical difference to our universe and us in it.) Such theories excite the [[Daydream Believer]]. Not to be confused with [[Transfictionality]], where the author creates his own [[Alternate Universe]] by imagining the story.
This scenario is actually the one currently favoured by a lot of physicists, since String Theory (apparently) requires the existence of something like 10<sup>500</sup> different sets of physical laws. A similar argument explains why we find ourselves born onto the relatively congenial surface of a planet, rather than inside a star or deep space. (Looked at that way, it starts to seem less like rocket science and more like "and?")<ref>Of course, intelligent lifeforms born in a star or in deep space would find those environments relatively congenial, and consider the surface of a planet to be unpleasant.</ref>
In a sense, it can often be assumed that the events portrayed, however unlikely, are still occurring within the realm of conceivable probability. For example, if a plot initiates because a character experiences an incredible event; even if the probability of said event was relatively unlikely, it can be assumed that the character also experiences many completely mundane events where nothing extraordinary happens, and that this event was simply the reason that the episode has been shown to viewers. In short, the events portrayed are not chosen at random from an arbitrary sampling of all existing events (nor even the characters, locations, etc), they are simply the events which are deemed to be of interest. Unlikely events do happen in real life, just not ''all the time''. '''Improbable does not mean Impossible'''. If someone were to select only the most interesting events that happened to the most interesting people, and write only about them, then even regular human life may seem extraordinary to the reader. It does not make those events any less believable.
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