David Cole

12.21.2009 10 replacement plot devices for the modern age

  1. Amnesia → Hard drive crash
  2. The self made man → The self-assembled robot
  3. Red herring → Wireless red herring
  4. Foreshadowing → 2^4shadowing
  5. Double agent → Double User-Agent
  6. Deus ex machina → iddqd
  7. Unreliable narrator → Reliable narrator [citation needed]
  8. The long con → The long cron
  9. It was all a dream → It was all a webisode
  10. The butler did it → The computer did it

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