It is sometimes said in TV and cinema that “you can ask an audience to believe the impossible, but not the improbable,” or as…

“It is sometimes said in TV and cinema that “you can ask an audience to believe the impossible, but not the improbable,” or as James Wood writes in How Fiction Works, “This is surely why Aristotle writes that a convincing impossibility in mimesis is always preferable to an unconvincing possibility.””

– Dunne, Anthony, and Fiona Raby. Speculative Everything: Design, Fiction, and Social Dreaming. Cambridge, Massachusetts: The MIT Press, 2013. (viacarvalhais)