I've realized.

[proudduckling]

I realize this once in a while: In movies and television, when someone sees that something horrible is happening, is about to happen, or has just happened, that person has a greater than fifty percent chance of shouting the word "No." Sometimes it's a short "No!" of shock and horror, sometimes a long "No!" of fear and disbelief, sometimes an

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[coldocean]

I was thinking, reading part one of your paragraph, that "nobody ACTUALLY says that," before realizing, oh, wait, why else would she be writing about it unless she actually did? And then I got to thinking that *I* might have done this as well at some point--something's nudging the back of my brain telling me that I have, and I think it is indeed a real memory (as opposed to those fake ones that I think are real)...

At any rate, poor bunny. :(

[proudduckling]

Yeah, that's the thing. I've never thought of it as something real people would say. That's why realizing that I've done it was odd. Of course, I've never been in most of the situations in which movie characters say it - a friend falling into a fiery pit, a sympathetic person sacrificing herself to save me, a guy in a black metal suit killing my mentor with a light saber - so who knows, maybe it would seem more natural if that was going on. :0)