I am aware. My point is that if you say “X is impossible” and then someone points out a way to do X, you now have a plot hole / have to admit that the fan is cleverer than the character or author. That’s genre savvy evidence against the prediction that EY will say “X is impossible,” whereas “he would end the chapter on a downer” isn’t because he would get the desired effect more strongly if he ended the chapter on a cliffhanger, and then had the character fall off the cliff.
Read above. There is a True End planned and pre-written.
I am aware. My point is that if you say “X is impossible” and then someone points out a way to do X, you now have a plot hole / have to admit that the fan is cleverer than the character or author. That’s genre savvy evidence against the prediction that EY will say “X is impossible,” whereas “he would end the chapter on a downer” isn’t because he would get the desired effect more strongly if he ended the chapter on a cliffhanger, and then had the character fall off the cliff.