There Are No Coincidences: Difference between revisions

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{{quote| '''Harvey''': ''Scorpius... Iz... [[A God Am I|Like Gohd]]! He doez not play dize vit ze univerze!''}}

** And Harvey, the invisible friend in Crichton's head is '''dressed like Einstein. Complete with [[Einstein Hair]].''' Farscape's that kind of show.

* [[Doctor Who ~~(TV)~~|The Doctor]] has a tendency to say this, usually while figuring out the plot. It's almost like he knows he's in a universe that has people writing the script. Or he's just had nine hundred years of experience in [[Genre Savvy|how these things work]].

* [[Doctor Who|The Doctor]] has a tendency to say this, usually while figuring out the plot. It's almost like he knows he's in a universe that has people writing the script. Or he's just had nine hundred years of experience in [[Genre Savvy|how these things work]].

** He didn't used to. The First Doctor was more likely to call things that were obviously enemy action coincidence than to call a coincidence fate. So the experience explanation seems likely.

* In the ''[[Community]]'' episode "[[Community (TV)/Recap/S2 E09 Conspiracy Theories and Interior Design|Conspiracy Theories and Interior Design]]" a [[Gambit Pileup]] caused by everyone involved explains the bizarre occurrences in this episode.

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** Technically, he didn't believe in randomness beyond the laws of physics and the boundary conditions of the universe. Those two things can still cause some pretty coincidental stuff to happen, just like pseudo-random number generators can cause coincidences in computer games.

* The Yoruba tribe in Africa believe there is only one reason people die: witchcraft. They refuse to accept such things as "natural causes" or "horrible accident" as causes of death.

* A [[The Great Politics Mess Up|Soviet-era]] phrase, "This was no accident, comrade," referred to both the Marxist ideological notion that powerful and inexorable historical forces drive human progress, and that more mundane human agents (i.e., [[Secret Police|the KGB]] or other parts of the totalitarian state) were secretly behind events that seemed to occur by happenstance.

* A [[The Great Politics Mess-Up|Soviet-era]] phrase, "This was no accident, comrade," referred to both the Marxist ideological notion that powerful and inexorable historical forces drive human progress, and that more mundane human agents (i.e., [[Secret Police|the KGB]] or other parts of the totalitarian state) were secretly behind events that seemed to occur by happenstance.

** It was also said that every major accident has a first, second and last name.

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