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Originally Posted by ElConvoy

I´ve seen alot of people on the Internet saying that Drive is "too predictable" and Gaim "did it better" when it really didnt. Almost everyone managed to predict major story twists in Gaim so how can that show not be predictable when so many people predicted important events months before they happened in the show.

Aside from the fact that this statement isn't true (most of the big predictions turned out false) there's a difference between being predictable and predicting something.

When someone predicted something about Gaim it was because the show set up those plot twists with carefully planted evidence as part of the larger mystery. They predicted events and facts.

Being predictable means a show's narrative is following conventions and typical developements. You're not examining evidence or deducing clues that come to a logical conclusion, you're being able to tell how events play out because they're typical and easy to figure out.

It's the difference between a cop drama where one case is predicted by examining the evidence at a crime scene and picking up on non-blatant clues to determine the culprit, verses a guy with an eyepatch, twirly moustache and foul demeanour that clearly says "bad guy" and then having him be the culprit.