chekov tropes

S7E3 – Chekhov’s Gun

If you say in the first chapter that there is a rifle hanging on the wall, in the second or third chapter it absolutely must go off. If it’s not going to be fired, it shouldn’t be hanging there. It’s wrong to make promises you don’t mean to keep. – Anton Chekhov

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S7E2 – Chekhov’s Red Herring and the Shaggy Dog

There is nothing more deceptive than an obvious fact – Sir Arthur Conan Doyle

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