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Originally Posted by Sherringford
Why would a character lie? Because he is the culprit, of course. Why would he lie to himself? Because he isn't lying. He's just being elusive with words.
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Thinking about it that way, I actually have a lot of problems with disclaiming scenes in which a person is thinking in the first-person. I mean, who is the audience for Natsuhi or Rosa's
thoughts? No one. Why would they just
make something up?
I mean, I can potentially doubt Eva and Hideyoshi's conversation in ep1, but that's because it was spoken in a scene narrated in the third-person. I didn't see Hideyoshi thinking about places he wanted to visit or anything. If I had,
why would I think he was lying about something that inconsequential?
Mind you, Umineko does have something I liked: A narrator who is unreliable due to his lack of competence. Battler's remarkable ability to draw incorrect conclusions made him more fun to read about, but only because I could tell when he was doing so.