r/plotholes

To put things in perspective, Cairo lost about 200,000 people to the plague; it wasn't a uniquely European phenomenon. For all that Kim Stanley Robinson wanted to avert Eurocentrism, he was kind of guilty of it when it came to the POD he created.

In the Goblet of Fire why did they skip the part where Barty Crouch Jr (the Doctor) gets his soul eaten? By a DEMENTOR??? Even without the books they had a witness with INFALLIBLE proof that Tom Riddle had returned! How did the producers forget how important this was? Is there even a deleted scene? I don’t understand why this isn’t talked about more than Artoo & Threepio escaping in a pod?

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I love this movie. I've bought it physically and digitally. But the more I watch it, the bigger the plot holes.

How could someone be so smart and not figure out you need to pay your loan shark? Or during the police line up, you don't obviously check your secret pocket to make sure you have your stash? And why do you have the whole thing on you? I have acid reflux, I know to carry an extra pill just incase.

So many dumb plot holes. These are just a few, but major.

So, I don’t know what flair to write this under but there is something that just came to mind. And it comes from the movie “King Ralph”. For those who don’t know the film; John Goodman stars as Ralph, an American lounge singer who discovers, after a freak accident, that he is the sole heir to the British Crown and becomes the King of England. After many mishaps and blunders, it turns out that the above is not true. There were actually two heirs. The other is played by Peter O’Toole.

O’Toole played the straight man to Goodman in the film and was Ralph’s confidant and tutor. At the end of the film, Ralph announces his abdication and then states that O’Toole’s Cedric is the true heir. At his much older age and the fact that Cedric was not married wouldn’t that make him the last heir? And if he should die what would happen next? Ralph, being next in line, can’t un-abdicate himself and any children he has in the interim years has lost their place in the line.

I know I am reading too much into it but it does pose a question what would happen next?

At the end, after his friends makes the wish for a billion dollars, why did Bear go to Nikki? Couldn't he have just gone to someone else to ask them to make the wish? Especially with all that money, he could just pay some random person or another friend to make the wish.

How do they still have electricity in London? Also, does every Black person in this movie and the last have to die early after being the most genuinely lovely person? Why is that a thing?

Why didn't she just barter the jewel on her forehead? Sure beats being handless.

This isn't "Why didn't they just use the gas from the DeLorean that Doc stored in the cave?"

That IS a good one though. Doc would have drained the fluids for long-term storage and would have kept them just in case he needed them. Properly stored, gasoline can still be effective for 1-2 years. (The 3-6 month period is when it STARTS to degrade, not when its unusable for combustion).

But this isn't that plot hole...it can be explained away too simply by "Doc didn't keep the gas" or "He used it in another experiment before Marty got there, maybe to build that big ice machine".

No, THIS is the BIGGER plot hole of: Doc is in 1885. The first US Petroleum refinery opened in 1850. They mostly refined a byproduct of salt mines called "rock oil" into Kerosene or other heating/light oils, but cracking it all the way to Gasoline was well within their capabilities. They just didn't have a use for it so they usually just burned it off as a waste byproduct.

By the 1880s there were several commercial refineries like this, some operating in Southern California. Most owned by Standard Oil and John D. Rockefeller.

Gasoline of an appropriate grade and octane was WIDELY available for the pair to acquire in 1885. The invention of the gasoline-powered engine patented in 1864 is proof of this.

Doc is technically correct "There won't be a service station around here for a very long time", but that doesn't follow that gasoline didn't exist. They just had to go to San Francisco to get it. Acquiring a quantity for "scientific experiment" would have been a simple matter and an already established process since there would have been commercially available gasoline engines since 1872 and they needed fuel. It also would have gotten both of them out of town for each of their respective Buford Tannen predestination events.

I was re-watching Scott Pilgrim vs. the World last week, the movie is perfect, way ahead of its time, and I freaking loved it.

That being said, one thing bothering me is the first fight between Scott and Matthew Patel.

Scott recieved an email from Matthew that they are going to be fighting over Ramona, the day after Scott met Ramona in the Julie's party.

However, up untill this point, Scott has not yet asked out Ramona. He was ordering something from Amazon to earn a chance to talk to Romona.

How did Matthew email Scott even before they start going out?

I have been thinking a lot about the math of the speed of light. I realized we are stuck in a logical trap.

The speed of light is a constant. Everyone is obsessed with hitting ninety nine percent of the speed of light. But the thing is light is a constant. If you are flying at ninety nine percent of the speed of light and you look at a beam of the speed of light passing you it is still moving at three hundred thousand kilometers per second. It does not matter how fast you go you are not actually getting closer to beating the speed of light. You are just chasing the speed of light that moves away fast as you approach it.

The Theory is that to surpass something you cannot be what it is. If you try to be fast you are playing by the rules of physics that say you cannot win. You will just hit time dilation. Stay where you are at relative to the speed of light.

To actually surpass the speed of light you have to do the inverse. You have to stop moving the speed of light.

If we stop trying to push a ship through space and start focusing on moving the space itself the speed limit disappears. It is like this:

You are a marble rolling across a rug. There is a limit to how you can roll.

You stay perfectly still and you just scrunch the rug up in front of you.

The logic is that you will not move if you are simply not moving the speed of light. If you stay in a bubble and inject the math of negative mass to contract space in front of you and expand it behind you you arrive at the destination without ever taking a step. You are not breaking the speed of light you are just making the distance between Point A and Point B zero.

We do not need engines. We need a way to scramble the map so that the destination is, under our feet.

Is anyone thinking about the speed of light or are we just going to keep building bigger Roman candles and wondering why we cannot catch up to a photon that is moving at the speed of light?

THIS IS ALL A THEORY DONT GET FLAGGED!!!

So I just finished watching "If Wishes Could Kill" and I was just going through reddit to see how people are reacting on the show.

And while doing so, a moment in the show just clicked in my mind and I noticed no one is talking about it. So I thought I should make a post about it.

Sooo... I don't remember the episode, but it was the whole flashback story when Hye-Ryung records her wish on the girigo app, not to be mentioned, the FIRST EVER wish video on the app.

The app was NOT cursed till this moment.

As the show CLEARLY reveal that after Si-Won wishes on the app to keep the curse going FOREVER.

So when Si-Won and that guy who Hye-Ryung liked gets killed on their own...how did that happen?

So if the cursed started AFTER this incident then how did Si-Won and that guy died? Who was controlling them?

I don't think it was Hye-Rung's spirit who killed them because then the whole plot gets even more confusing that who is the real killer here... Hye-Rung's spirit, the curse that started after Si-Won's wish OR was the app really working how it was made to work.

And if yes then again another question arises that how does the app work, and all this hye-rung and Si-Won story plays a completely different storyline, the one that is shown to us. NOT how the app works (if it does work)

Maybe I have lost any detail while watching the show and that's why I am posting this. Let's see what you guys have to tell.

There's a writing goof here that no one ever talks about, and I don't know if it's because no one noticed.

When O'Brien contacts Bashir after his interrogation he asks Bashir: "Has Sloan questioned you yet?"

Bashir: "Yeah we just finished."

A few lines later

O'Brien: "He just grilled me for over two hours."

........Wait what?