Informed Ability/Quotes
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Picard asks Troi for her opinion, and in the most shameless example of Informed Attributes I think I've ever seen, Troi outlines, describes, and explains the entire character of Okona for us. "His emotions suggest he's mischievous, irreverent, and somewhat brazen! The word that seems to best describe him is 'rogue'." This! Is! How you will feel about this character! Live it, love it, learn it! Okona: The Freshmaker! Keep in mind, none of this will turn out to be true about Okona. At least, not from anything we'll actually see.
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In case you haven't noticed, John is even worse at psychiatry than Trilby is at stealing. Spoiler alert: There is not a single instance in the entire series of a protagonist actually demonstrating a skill we're supposed to believe they have.
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“I have yet to have an author inform me that a character is charming, and then, by that character’s deeds and conversation, convince me of that fact.”
—Dorothy Parker, "These Much Too Charming People"
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Light: Oh yeah, the proof for the viewers that I'm very smart. |
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Give a man a reputation as an early Riser and He can sleep until noon
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An earlier draft of the script [for The Matrix] explains that the guy [who pays for Neo's hacking services] just wants Neo's help so he can get the boot off his car. Presumably, the Wachowskis figured out that they could just skip all that nonsense and tell the audience how awesome Neo is by... having other characters tell Neo how awesome he is.
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On the whole, however, frothy as it is, we rather prefer "Rank and Beauty" to the two other novels we have mentioned. . . you are allowed to take the heroine's astounding intellect upon trust, without being called on to read her conversational refutations of sceptics and philosophers, or her rhetorical solutions of the mysteries of the universe.
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