  Noël Carroll qualifies the first claim of the paradox; he argues that suspense merely requires entertained uncertainty, not  actual uncertainty (Carroll 2001). In “The Paradox of  Suspense,” Carroll offers a persuasive account of how we might  dissolve this paradox. He argues that even if we know that a film  will end a certain way, we can still imagine while watching it, that  it will not end that way. He argues that merely imagining that an  event’s outcome is uncertain is enough to create suspense, thereby  qualifying the first premise of the paradox—only entertained  uncertainty is necessary for suspense. 