Yeah I think I was mostly thinking of the Jane stuff. I think the actors try harder to keep things close to the vest as possible just for fear of saying the wrong thing but they answer what they can and ignore the rest probably.
The Jane stuff confused me just because she was answering it sooo early in the episode without letting the episode play out. That’s the beauty and danger of letting a writer do the live-tweet I guess. (Confused as in not the answers but the fact she was doing that). I love her pre-episode interviews that are more teasing (much like H&K) but not so much the mid-episode stuff when it’s things that are answered in that episode. It would have made much more sense for her to say keep watching and then clarify after the episode ran for any that were still confused. Either way there’s at least the danger of that.
As for other things not episode specific sometimes it’s nice to get confirmation even if it does kill theories. (Some people get upset when anything is given positive or negative and I get that but at that point it’s not killing off a kneejerk reaction at the start of an episode that kills suspense for later in the episode. Sometimes like with the BF thing, it’s asking for clarification given the impression some have had over time and gives a new direction to theorize.)
I guess that’s the distinction I’m making…instant theory-killers within the same episode that detract from enjoying watching it play out right now vs in general clarification things about the past: notice they don’t instantly say not to think so and so might be this or that, they just clarify things we’ve seen where some stuff may have landed on the cutting room floor. The rest of the time they just tease with things like “I’d be upset if we never learned this or that.”
I absolutely love theorizing and sometimes things are helpful to steer us in the right direction, just not mid-episode when the answer will be revealed if you’re paying attention. Sometimes theorizing about stuff even if you’re dead wrong prepares you for when you do eventually see a character you thought was somebody else, or takes you off on a tangent that eventually leads you back to something that does make sense and might actually happen.
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