This setup really doesn’t work when it’s one of the door-guards that’s telling you the rules, since how do you know that they’re not lying when they do that? There needs to be a reliable third party there to set things up. Labyrinth fucked this up.
Yes? No? Depends on how you look at it? They absolutely fucked up the setup if they wanted to present the riddle properly, but fucking it up was kinda the point of the scene in context (which is extra-meta when you think about it). Rewatch the scene.
The whole context of the scene was that the labyrinth isn’t really fair. Her navigational marks were being changed, walls were moving, and now she encounters this riddle that the riddle-givers screw up in delivery and explicitly acknowledge they don’t really understand, and even after figuring out the “correct” answer it doesn’t actually matter So yes, Labyrinth fucked this up, but it was pretty clearly intentional, and the scene worked as intended.
This setup really doesn’t work when it’s one of the door-guards that’s telling you the rules, since how do you know that they’re not lying when they do that? There needs to be a reliable third party there to set things up. Labyrinth fucked this up.
Yes? No? Depends on how you look at it? They absolutely fucked up the setup if they wanted to present the riddle properly, but fucking it up was kinda the point of the scene in context (which is extra-meta when you think about it). Rewatch the scene.
The whole context of the scene was that the labyrinth isn’t really fair. Her navigational marks were being changed, walls were moving, and now she encounters this riddle that the riddle-givers screw up in delivery and explicitly acknowledge they don’t really understand, and even after figuring out the “correct” answer it doesn’t actually matter So yes, Labyrinth fucked this up, but it was pretty clearly intentional, and the scene worked as intended.