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CleverScreenName said: [blockquote]That's the common thread with Quentin, most people see things before he does. I'm sure plenty of people saw through it, but that's always an interesting part about being a writer: the number of people who say they saw every plot twist coming. I ran a contest to that effect for EARTHCORE. Anyone remember the "EARTHCORE Death Pool?" I think it was about ten episodes in, I had people guess who would live to the end so I didn't have to hear "aw, yeah, totally saw all that coming, bro." Only one person got it right. I rubbed my hands together in an evil fashion.[/blockquote]
It's an interesting psychological phenomenon. A barely-conscious sneaking suspicion can be remembered as an ironclad precognitive certainty after it comes true. And it it doesn't come true, it's disregarded and forgotten. In retrospect, hits look like amazing feats of prescience, while misses simply don't exist.

Keeping a blog of time-stamped predictions about episodic fiction might be an interesting experiment.