"This is true. If the point is to build fear through suspense, then of course we need to wait." He's a writer, he knows how this sort of thing goes. "Not sure whether it's ideal for the captain's purposes for us to let out guard down first or whether to have disaster happen at the moment of highest tension."

He pauses, then adds, "Though as... strange as this is, the tension has nothing to do with anything actually happening here, only what we imagine."