Ruin a scene with a common sense

Cafe Society
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You know. The usual 5: Sight, Smell, Touch, Hearing, Taste.

For Example: I once saw a show where Prince Namor jumped into a swimming pool to refresh himself only to find out it was filled with alcohol. Wouldn’t he have smelled that? In real life, sure, but not on tv. Given the gift of smell he would not have become the world’s largest martini olive.

Any others?

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Have you ever gotten water up in your sinuses? Stings like a motherfucker it does. I assume alcohol is even worse.

Also, in an underwater environment, smell would seem to be a minor concern at most.

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nm… didn’t read the OP clearly.

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How about your sense of heat detection, and how you would not accidentally be anywhere near lava?

I think the OP is assuming he could smell the difference before he jumped in.

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So many comic book (and novel, and video game*) scenes don’t work when you realize that, in universe, these people can HEAR the voices…so even if the reader doesn’t know that it’s the hero’s best friend/arch-nemesis talking to them, the HERO would recognize the voice. (Excluding scenes where the writer actually thinks about this part and has the other character change their voice. Or things like the first Roger Rabbit novel, where half the characters literally speak in speech balloons.)

  • Yeah, the only non-voiced medium I can’t remember running across this issue is silent movies. But comic books are the worst offenders.
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The scene in Evil Dead II where Ash slowly backs away from the door, then suddenly gets jumped by the hillbilly. Ash would have had plenty of time to see him coming.