omg this got huge i am so sorry :>
@zebratron2084 I use Watsonian and Doylist a lot to describe different ways of explaining a plot inconsistency or other issue.
Like, let's say a character is described as having blue eyes in one scene and green eyes in another. The Doylist explanation would be like "the author probably forgot" while the Watsonian explanation would be like "the character can change eye-color, or have blueish-green eyes that change tint depending on the light."
re: omg this got huge i am so sorry :>
@Owlor I would probably register as an extreme Doylist then. :) But it's complicated. I think there's a lot of value in putting on the Watsonian mindset, knowing it's not exactly "true" but it is useful, as long as people don't mistake it for... a certain specific value of real. Like I said, it gets complicated for me. :)
re: omg this got huge i am so sorry :>
@Owlor Also, I have a huge soft spot for books and media with unreliable narrators so I probably couldn't afford to be a Doylist about most of them. Like, being a Doylist when reading American Psycho or watching Legion. OMG the pain. :D