[Jan-Poo]

Originally Posted by Judoh

Nobody said they contradict each other. But it's not realistic that all these people fell and hurt themselves or are assumed to have fallen and died at different times in the story. It's both very silly, and it's lazy writing on Ryukishi's part because it's too convenient. If you tie it all to one event and have rumors like the one with the falling servant spring off the original story then it's little more meaningful instead of slapstick.

That's still nothing. The worst part is in Higurashi Tatarigoroshi

Spoiler for Higurashi:

When at the end the narrator goes its way to explain how a crazed Keichi believing he can make people die just by thinking it predicts the death by drowning of the reporter that interrogates him. And guess what? The reporter actually dies by drowning.
This can't really be plausibly explained with anything but a coincidence that the author placed there just to reinforce the idea that Keichi wasn't just mad and that he actually had that power.

Originally Posted by jjblue1

... sometimes I think the reason why Ryukishi doesn't want to reveal the complete solution to Umineko it's not because he doesn't have one but because he realized that's one so unlikely readers would find hard to accept it.

Well one thing is certain at least that there's no doubt that Ryuukishi realized that the readers would find it hard to accept his solutions.