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- [Detective] This is not a game.

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- Will you explain it
to us then, detective?

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- How difficult or easy is it

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to sort of navigate the
balance of telling something

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that is original that
also does sort of traffics

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in the tropes of a genre
that is so well explored?

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- Well, I mean, one of the
really interesting things,

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if you're like a fan of detective fiction

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from the classic era
which is like, you know,

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the '20s and '30s, is you go back

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and you read even the
earliest stuff and it itself,

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like Agatha Christie was very self-aware,

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almost to the point of being
meta about detective stories.

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Characters in her books
are constantly bringing

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up the tropes of detective
stories and uprooting them.

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She wrote a character that is
a Mrs. Oliver who's a parody

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of herself that's like this bombastic sort

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of mystery writer who's
always assaulting Poirot

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with her theories on how
the case should be solved.

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So, to me, it's a weird thing.

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It's kind of a hat on a
hat type thing where one

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of the tropes of the genre
as I, as someone who grew

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up reading it, is it's
self-referential, self-aware nature.

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So playing that out is almost
just like paying homage

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to what I think Christie did so well.

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