In general, I like twists that mean I get a significantly different idea of what the characters are thinking/feeling on reread (/rewatch), so I like most twists involving characters keeping secrets from me (though obviously execution can ruin it).
The others are more hit or miss for me -- "[Characters] are related but don't know" is less interesting to me than "[characters] are related and one knows but wasn't saying." A twist like having one character turn out to be a hallucination can make things more interesting, but all it inherently does is completely remove the question of what one if them is thinking on reread (because they're a hallucination).
I also like twists if they make me laugh purely because they're weird, but that's harder to make abstract.
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Date: 2022-04-08 10:16 pm (UTC)The others are more hit or miss for me -- "[Characters] are related but don't know" is less interesting to me than "[characters] are related and one knows but wasn't saying." A twist like having one character turn out to be a hallucination can make things more interesting, but all it inherently does is completely remove the question of what one if them is thinking on reread (because they're a hallucination).
I also like twists if they make me laugh purely because they're weird, but that's harder to make abstract.