Board Thread:Episode Discussion/@comment-3125844-20151009190731/@comment-24399666-20151023052044

PDXBlazer wrote: Even if they said she is dead at Comic Con and it turns out she comes back, they can say what they want since it's their show and they don't want to give away all their secrets for the show. There are ways to not give away secrets without flat-out lying. They, like most authors of ongoing popular fiction, do it all the time. :)

What I'm saying is that there's a difference between misleading the audience and flat-out lying to them. The former is expected, and enhances the viewer experience, because we can look back on what they actually said and realize, "Oh, that's what they meant! Tricky! Clever!" The latter, however, is not clever at all, and it makes us angry at them, because people don't like being outright lied to. Which is bad for their ratings.

As I mentioned, there is a way to interpret what they said as technically true, yet Juliette is not dead, and that is if she somehow never died in the first place, but she is "gone." Or they mean what they seem to mean, and Juliette is really most sincerely dead. Or they are lying. Those are the three possible ways to interpret what they said in the interviews, and only the third possibility results in a lack of trust.