In episode 17, when Commander Taggart is about to escape the neutron field in the omega-13, he used the auxiliary of deck B… But in the next episode, the schematic shows that deck has been totally vaporized. I was just wondering, do you think that’s a continuity error, or do you think there’s a justifiable reason for it?
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You are our last hope.
This feels like a murderbot reference, but I haven’t read them all
Never give up, never surrender
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The whole UFO scene in “Life of Brian”.
Maybe not for the plot (since it’s never referenced or brought up ever again in the film) but I think it does work thematically:
This would be the one real miraculous event in Brian’s life. If anything, you would expect that a man who fell from a tower, got picked up by a flaming ball, and returned safely to the ground would be hailed as a holy person by all witnesses.
Instead, nobody gives a fuck and in the next couple of scenes Brian becomes a holy figure through entirely unrelated and mundane means.
Yeah, my main problem is with the whole “never mentioned again” thing. As it is, you could as well just leave it out.
Chicago fire. Stella and Severide being “away” longer than expected. Out of the blue ignoring the other one. I know the actors had other work to do, but it was sloppy writing.
Claudette:
He’s always bugging me about my house. Fifteen years ago, we agreed, that house belongs to me. Now the value of the house is going up and he’s seeing dollar signs. Everything goes wrong at once. Nobody wants to help me, and I’m dying.
Lisa:
You’re not dying, mom.
Claudette:
I got the results of the test back. I definitely have breast cancer.
Lisa:
Look, don’t worry about it. Everything will be fine. They’re curing lots of people every day.
Claudette:
I’m sure I’ll be alright.
Using The Room is cheating. There are only, like, two scenes in the entire movie that make sense according to the plot.
And also, I would have probably gone with the playing catch (with a football, I think) in tuxedos scene.
In Prometheus at the start… right until the very end.
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“Hey, alien planet we’ve never been on before. Let’s take our helmets off.”
“Hey our map guy got LOST inside an underground tunnel and tried to pet an alien snake and now he’s infected.”
“This medical machine is configured for men. Caesarian mode is on the left.”
I call the movie Fuckwits In Space for these and many more reasons.
Expecting humans in a sci-fi monster movie not to be cocky before their sudden yet inevitable demise is kind of cheating.
I don’t understand the last point.
PS I really really like Prometheus, so I’m biased
I liked it’s world-building and greater lore implications for the Aliens universe, but I can still admit it has flaws and pacing issues
I will never stop calling any scene where an object is moving towards people and they run directly away from it while it’s gaining on them as “the Prometheus school of running away.” This was only slightly less stupid than trying to outrun a train…on the tracks.
The Office, Season 6, episode 20, “The Leads”. All the characters in this episode always seemed to me like they had a different personality for just this one episode. It really stands out IMO.
I was completely on Michael’s side through that whole story. When Phyllis called him numb nuts, I think any other manager would have fired her ass. But they treat Michael like shit sometimes cause he’s so forgiving.
Also after the Michael Scott paper company when Phyllis is crying that Michael claimed they were family but went after their customers, yeah Phillis? And what did you guys say when Michael treated you as family? You scoffed at him and brushed him off. So fuck you. Also hate how when you get a new customer you “got a new customer” but when you lose a customer it’s “they STOLE the customer”. There’s no stealing here buddy, just a better salesperson
Lost. All of it.
Abed:
It’s the first season of Lost on DVD.Pierce:
That’s the meaning of Christmas?Abed:
No. It’s a metaphor. It represents lack of pay-off.[…]
Abed:
I get it. The meaning of Christmas is the idea that Christmas has meaning. And it can be whatever we want. For me, it used to mean being with my mom. Now it means being with you guys. Thanks, Lost.Frustrated they never showed the polar bears backstory including his work as a scientist with a gambling problem and a fractured relationship with his son.
Walt?
Pawse…Breaking Bear?
The biggest one for me is in Butterfly effect, when he goes back in time and gives himself the scars, it goes against everything we learned about time travel in that movie. If he did that he would have had the scars all along, they would not have appeared out of thin air, also the timeline would have diverged there.
In the same vein, in looper where they start crippling the past version of a person and the future one who is running away from something gets starts stumbling more and more until he can’t walk, but the first few hundred meters he still made somehow.
But that is internally coherent from what I remember. I.e. time always works that way, changes in the past are propagated, and time travelers get the effects sometime after it.
Ah maybe it is. I don’t remember it very well anymore. Then it wouldn’t be a bad scene and more of a bad overall setup.
Yeah. It is consistent with the time travel rules in Looper, and the rules in Looper are just kinda silly.
It makes me sad because there’s no real need for it - the plot to Looper would still have worked without the silly bits.
The twist ending of Now You See Me. Just stupid.
have you seen the sequel? barf
Nope. Nothing about the original made me want to see more of it.
In Rock ‘n’ Roll High School Forever, the scene where they go over to someone’s house and pretend to worship their refrigerator doesn’t further the plot or character development in any way.
In The Matrix, humans were used as batteries. The energy requirements needed by a body to sustain itself outweigh feeding it to extract energy. It would’ve been more efficient to burn the food directly instead of feeding it to people.
Originally it was humans being used for their brains as processing units, but they thought thatd be too confusing for audiences so they went with batteries.
In the original script, they were used for processing power, but the C-suites made them change it because they feared spectators wouldn’t understand.
That’s really interesting but I think that suffers from a similar issue because I’d assume the processing power needed to run the matrix alone would be much greater than 1:1 per human.
That’s why it’s called sifi… Is based loosely on the myth that humans only use 10% of their brains.
Sience, bitches!
They needed special kind of problem solving computation, that only human brains can do. Like generating text or something.
Kinda like The Attic in Dollhouse
More like they changed it because the C-suite didn’t understand
They would have made poor processing units
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The whole last season of GOT.
Just rewarched on a TV in a background and it’s so bad. I thought maybe given some time it would clear up a bit as GOT hype died down but it’s just awful, can’t believe the actors managed to keep a straight face.
You can just watch the Pitch Meeting next time. Shorter and internally consistent.
It’s incomprehensibly bad. The later seasons ahead of the books all had their problems, but the last one is just…
It’s completely lost on me how something like that can happen to such a big production. GoT was the hottest pop culture shit for years but after season eight, we just collectively stopped talking about it.
kingsman movie, first one. he did some parkour in the beginning to get away front bullies, then never again.
lessons in chemistry. crazy contraption to feed the dog, then never again anything like it.
Those scenes are just there to establish that he’s capable, intelligent and talented in the ways the agency needs, so it’s plausible they would recruit him. Never-mind that they also establish the way he looks at the world and approaches problems which is then forgotten immediately.
