Lazy plot setups. Main example: if someone coughs for no reason in the first 10 minutes, they DEFINITELY have a terminal illness that will be revealed shortly.
Especially frustrating because vomiting isn’t even guaranteed with pregnancy! 20-30% of women make it through with no morning sickness, and then out of the 70-80% who do feel totally nauseous, not everyone actually vomits!
A necessary evil, though I agree very spoiler-y. People don’t respond well to left-field plot-relevant details. So when you have a story to tell and a limited run-time to tell it, you don’t get time to linger on atmospheric-but-not-plot-relevant details, and you have to include a satisfying level of foreshadowing. The result is that those foreshadowing details don’t get time to “breathe”.
This seems to go either one of two ways, depending largely on story pacing and overall quality: either it’s derided as predictable, or lauded as “tight”. It’s a tricky, and largely subjective, line to walk.
Lazy plot setups. Main example: if someone coughs for no reason in the first 10 minutes, they DEFINITELY have a terminal illness that will be revealed shortly.
Similarly, there is only one reason for a woman to vomit in a movie.
Especially frustrating because vomiting isn’t even guaranteed with pregnancy! 20-30% of women make it through with no morning sickness, and then out of the 70-80% who do feel totally nauseous, not everyone actually vomits!
A necessary evil, though I agree very spoiler-y. People don’t respond well to left-field plot-relevant details. So when you have a story to tell and a limited run-time to tell it, you don’t get time to linger on atmospheric-but-not-plot-relevant details, and you have to include a satisfying level of foreshadowing. The result is that those foreshadowing details don’t get time to “breathe”.
This seems to go either one of two ways, depending largely on story pacing and overall quality: either it’s derided as predictable, or lauded as “tight”. It’s a tricky, and largely subjective, line to walk.