PT61.S4.Q05 - many scholars are puzzled about who

Tina Cho

I was not sure between C and D.
I thought D could be true because maybe they favored a certain character more than the other charactors. This would explain why the abridgement contains a very accurate rendering of the speeches of one of the characters.
Why is D wrong?
Any ideas...??
https://7sage.com/lsat_explanations/lsat-61-section-4-question-05

nye8870

Well you are right to debate between C/D but remember this is a MSS. So one answer choice will definitely outweigh the other. I love your consideration that a spectator might have a preference. But who is more likely to remember the detailed speech of one character? Yes a spectator fanboy of one character could... but an actor who played a role would be way more likely to know it by heart. And ac D requires you speculate a lot more info than provided about said spectator. An actor in the play inherently would know this stuff.
That's my take. Hope it helps.

Tina Cho

Humm...true. but I'm sure someone would remember all the lines of one character if they really love the character (as you say, fanboy or fangirl?) so that confused me...but now I think...people can do that because they can watch show many times, but back then maybe that was impossible.
I mean...it may not be easy to watch the show even if they wanted to, so that would make it very hard to remember all of the lines for speculators. What do you think??

Tina Cho

@nye8870

nye8870

@"Tina Cho" said:
people can do that because they can watch show many times

Indeed but do you see the mental gymnastics you have to do to get there? C is a clear and reasonable conclusion.

blah170blah

^^ what nye said. It requires less logical leaps to reason why an actor could have written the abridgement (he/she remembers his lines the best) than a spectator (because you'd have to assume that the spectator was not a neutral spectator but a biased one in favor of one actor)

Tina Cho

Thank you