Watsonian Versus Doylist: Difference between revisions

Sometimes a Doylist explanation is interjected purposely into a narrative; for example, in ''[[Monty Python and the Holy Grail]]'' the Knights of the Round Table (or what is left of them) are chased by the Legendary Black Beast of AAAAAAAARGH in the common surreal [[Terry Gilliam]] style transitional animation. Fortunately for the heroes, when there is apparently no chance of escape the narrator explains that the animator suffered from a fatal heart attack—a beast that [[Giant Space Flea From Nowhere|arises out of nowhere]] and is killed by a surrealist [[Deus Ex Machina]] coming from a Doylist inclusion in the narrative.

In German-speaking fandom of Disney's Duck comics, the two ways of analyzing the stories are called ''Donaldismus literaricus'' (which treats the work of Carl Barks and others as works of art and literature) and ''Donaldismus archaeologicus'' (which treats them as factual reports from the Earth-like planet called ''Stella Anatium''—the Star of the Ducks). In the D.O.N.A.L.D. (''Deutsche Organisation Nichtkommerzieller Anhänger des lauteren Donaldismus'' = German Organization of Non-Commercial Adherents of True Donaldism) the latter tends to dominate. ''[[Donald Duck]]'' comics are [[Serious Business]], definitely.