Okay, question time again. @ people who read How to Love a Madman:

[hmpf]

Did you 'get' that the abbreviations in the crossword puzzle were medical abbreviations? Or do I need to put one or two more obvious ones in there? And which ones could I use that people might actually recognise? GCS? FBC?

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[neuralclone.livejournal.com]

Oh yes, I picked that up. "CT scan", for example, is commonly known, and once you pick that up, well, the rest all make sense.

Okay...

[hmpf.livejournal.com]

the score so far:

- two people who said it was obvious - but they're medical pros/medical geeks
- two people with basic or intense knowledge of the show who say they got it, too
- two people (answering in a writing comm where I also posted my question) who didn't get it, or at least not initially. (I didn't give them much context, though, so that may have been the problem.)

Hmm.

Re: Okay...

[beccatoria.livejournal.com]

I got it. Or rather, I didn't get half the references but I got enough to know exactly what was going on and understand the situation - i.e. that Sam thinks the crossword is feeding him abbreviations of medical stuff going on with his real body in a coma.

I think that it's hard to say whether the two people who didn't get it just didn't have enough information. Were they aware the entire show is about a man who thinks he's trapped in a coma and periodically gets odd messages from the "real" world? Because that's kind of a massive clue which I think would crystalise the issue. Certainly I'd be surprised if viewers of the show didn't "get" what was going on...