The biggest plot hole, though, sits in the first episode.
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It's easy to get lost, trip, and fall on a plot hole.
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Obviously, that's not the case, so is this a huge plot hole?
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This morning, one coworker brought me a particularly delightful treat: a plot hole.
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And in Endgame, the requisite happy ending does leave a gaping plot hole.
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And not just any question — a question about a ridiculous plot hole or story line?
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We've taken the liberty of creating a non-canon scene filling in the plot hole.
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Their stay is less of a plot hole, then, and maybe more of a revisionist reality.
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However, Reddit user Hainted explained the plot hole and surely blew everyone's mind in the process.
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In retrospect, this looks more like an effective slow burn than a plot hole to me.
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It feels and runs like a real Star Wars adventure (complete with the occasional plot hole).
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Sometimes a supposed plot hole is a request to the audience to take a leap of faith.
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It is a big plot hole in this otherwise comedic fantasy that someone will have to resolve.
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They want a deus ex machina for a conflict, a plot hole that does not really exist.
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Unfortunately, the actual competition only lasts about five minutes and is marred by yet another plot hole.
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The happy coincidence had to do more with some good ol' Hollywood recycling than an actual plot hole.
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Fans can't figure it out, either: Ultimately, this might just be one plot hole we have to accept.
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Still, the question of how an Assassin could exist in this time is kind of a plot hole.
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This isn't a plot hole or a story flaw, it's just one of the big mysteries of this series.
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Improbably dumping their stormtrooper disguises (plot hole!), they opt to blast their way out of the Death Star instead.
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Too bad this lovely narrative has a major plot hole: Blunt-force trauma isn't the only way cars kill.
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This scene is deleted in the Chinese release, leaving a plot hole as viewers have no idea where Jim came from.
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In its quest to explore multiple potential reasons for Margot's disappearance, the film builds up plot hole after plot hole and then resolves them all using one extremely predictable plot twist (one the movie asks us to predict early on by revealing that Margot's high school is "the home of the catfish"), combined with one extremely unbelievable plot twist.
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But more importantly, this kind of plot hole glaringly underscores the need for more women at every level of the film industry.
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Bizarre, clunky dialogue seems to be an industry standard and, sure, games with multiple endings can struggle to clean up every plot hole.
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The reason behind keeping them in the dark is still a bit unclear, but this theory does fill a pretty major plot hole.
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Even those inclined to sympathize with that premise politically may feel insulted by the plot hole-a-palooza offered here to support it.
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The Hand storyline developed in Daredevil and Iron Fist comes to fruition, and even the literal plot hole of Daredevil Season 2 gets filled up.
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It feels like a gaping plot hole in a series that has otherwise been the most tightly written stretch of "Trek" episodes in the franchise.
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"I think people have come to think a plot hole is something which isn't explained on screen," Moffat said in response to complaints about season three.
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That Halliday is treated, without exception, as a figure deserving of admiration and awe and not as the villain of this story remains its biggest plot hole.
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For example, I think Signs had the biggest plot hole of all time by making the aliens allergic to water, on a planet that's full of it.
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When the wires come off and Patty can eat solid food again, the weight stays off too (a major plot hole) and she finally gets revenge on her bullies.
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What's not: It's a bit slow at the start, the story structure is unorthodox, there's at least one giant plot hole, and the trailers give away far too much
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Rogue One spent two hours and thirteen minutes fixing a plot hole about the Death Star, which happened to be something I'd spent a lot of time already thinking about.
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However, as of Disney's purchase of the franchise, canonical sources have been slashed, and we're left once again with lightsabers that work without the plot-hole filler that was once allotted.
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Avengers: Endgame actor Tom Holland is notorious for spoiling Marvel movies for fans, but even he couldn't make sense of a possible plot hole in his upcoming movie Spiderman: Far from Home.
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Yet from the moment these two very different visionaries make a nerd-love connection in defense of a supposed "Star Wars" plot hole, it makes sense, retrospectively, that they would hook up.
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The giant OB/GYN plot hole isn't really about the Star Wars universe having inadequate reproductive health care, it's about Lucas lazily relying on a blanket of ignorance surrounding the entire phenomenon of childbirth.
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A plot hole emerges Just after the 1-hour mark in the original version, a drunk Mercury gropes his future partner Jim, who was working as a server at the party the star had just hosted.
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The story follows a character named Yun Tianming (who plays a pivotal role in Death's End); Li Jun uses his book to fill in a bit of a plot hole and flesh out the world a bit more.
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The hot, intense canvases in "Sirens," at DC Moore, have titles like "Conflagration With Bangs" (2015) and "Red Hot Plot Hole" (2016) and feature flames painted in warm colors and covered with iridescent glitter (the painterly material of the moment).
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We're supposed to ask the question, but there's no real answer to it; the ambiguity of the show's actual existing racial logics become like another plot hole, something that can be construed from enough cascading levels of narrative that any true source code is impossible to trace.
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For those on the conspiracy-theory right who bought into narratives about Trump being a Yojimbo-style master of strategy, playing the warmongering puppets on both sides of the political spectrum against each other for the benefit of Real Americans, this missile attack is a disturbing plot hole.
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I left the theater feeling like the movie I'd just seen was frivolous and poorly plotted but sort of charming in its own way, and it moved along so fast I barely had time to register another plot hole before it soldiered on to the next picturesque location.
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Padme's "Will to Live" Since tweeting about the OB/GYN plot hole, I've received countless messages from men who are furious with me about letting "feminism ruin" Revenge of the Sith, which might be the first time that fans have ever crawled out of the woodwork to defend Star Wars prequels.
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You should want to date her and be her friend — except there's one big plot hole: Beck is basic AF. She's so basic she probably still says "basic AF." You is full of implausible storylines, like how Joe keeps getting away with murder without wearing gloves or planning ahead at ALL, but the most incredulous thing about You is Beck's outstanding mediocrity.
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Her trap captures the Magic Knights by mistake, so she ponders whether to stretch their cheeks or boil them in a big pot, again wearing a feathered headdress and doing a war dance. In the anime series, she is killed by one of Ascot's beast summons. This death happens only in the anime, and unfortunately created a plot hole for the second season when Presea becomes a necessary character in the manga counterpart. In order to fill this plot hole, her twin sister, Sierra, is created to pose as her.
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A running gag is that Hooterville is so remote that the only way to get there is by parachute. However, a plot hole shows that Hooterville is connected on a railroad and has a nearby airport in Pixley.
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In fiction, a plot hole, plothole or plot error is a gap or inconsistency in a storyline that goes against the flow of logic established by the story's plot. Such inconsistencies include things as illogical, unlikely or impossible events, and statements or events that contradict earlier events in the storyline. Plot holes are usually created unintentionally, often a result of editing or the writers simply forgetting that a new event would contradict the events and not checking. However, the term is also frequently incorrectly applied - for example, a character being intentionally written to take irrational action would not be a plot hole, nor would "loose ends" or unexplained aspects.
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Trancers 6 tries to be like the original Trancers, by only including the original movie's time freezer watch. Although, including this is probably a plot hole, as Trancers 6 ignores parts 4 and 5 completely and, therefore, it does not make sense to be using the old one.
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An early plot hole was revealed to Clifton by fans of the show. Early on, Liam learns of the Forrester family after arriving in Los Angeles. But later it was revealed that he believed one of the Forresters could be his father even before he moved. Of the character's unrevealed history, Clifton knows little.
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Charlie Milward from the Daily Express described his departure as some "heartbreaking scenes". Sasha Morris from the Daily Star branded the bikerider not reporting Cameron running from the crash scene a "plot hole". She added that fans were "horrified" and "devastated". Morris thought that Xavier's "turned upside down" by Nanette's arrival, adding that her story with Marlon "shocked" viewers.
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While watching, Michael begins noting how the film is not really very good; he steps outside and tells Holly that it is a bad film but also one that people are having fun watching. They sit down and laugh with the rest of the office through the film's conclusion, especially at Michael's inference with an actual hockey game and the plot-hole at the end.
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Episode 13 included a next episode preview to "The Abduction of P-Chan". However, "The Abduction of P-Chan" and the two following episodes that continue the story were not broadcast because of several kidnappings in Japan at the time. This causes a very slight plot hole in episode 15, which includes flashbacks to the then unaired episodes. They were later broadcast as Ranma ½ Nettōhen episodes 7-9.
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Belly Bag (Eric Bauza) introduces Uncle Grandpa and his role as "everyone in the world's uncle and grandpa". Despite this, the Gems see him as a threat and prepare to attack. As he and Steven run from them, Uncle Grandpa summons a plot hole from Belly Bag, transporting them to Uncle Grandpa's world. In his RV, Uncle Grandpa introduces Steven to his friends Pizza Steve (Adam DeVine), Mr. Gus (Kevin Michael Richardson) and Giant Realistic Flying Tiger.
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Kitty confronts Big Buddha, wanting revenge for his war crimes as executioner during the Nanking Massacre, including the death of her parents seven years earlier,(This is a plot hole, since the Nanking Massacre was in 1937–1938)The Nanjing Incident but she is captured. Power surrenders to Big Buddha to save her. Big Buddha plans to ship Power to Hong Kong to extract secrets from him. Unexpectedly, Big Buddha's mute servant girl tries to stab him.
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The Simpsons showrunner Mike Scully has expressed regret for cutting this scene because it "hurts the logic" later in the episode when Captain Jack crawls out of the capitol and reveals himself to everyone, thus creating a plot hole due to a lack of any explanation as to how he got there. Actor Diedrich Bader guest starred in the episode as the sheriff.Bader, Diedrich. (2008). Audio commentary for "Kill the Alligator and Run", in The Simpsons: The Complete Eleventh Season [DVD].
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He stated that the series thus far has been light on alien menaces and the explanations for them, stating that the mood created was effective, but it did little else to the episode. Ruediger also mentioned the inability to "overcome the glaring plot holes and weird inconsistencies in the script", such as the plot hole of not releasing the previous tenants before Bill and her friends, and the constant number of questions that resulted from the episode. He did, however, praise Suchet as reliable.
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A core aspect of the graphic novel is that the Earth's magnetic field has cut out, allowing cosmic rays to bombard the planet, and rendering it uninhabitable to humanity. However, an equally important aspect of the graphic novel is Armageddon's ability to come into phase with the Earth's magnetic field and boost his own power output considerably - this is referred to as Pumping Iron and used several times throughout the novel, saving his life at least three times. The discrepancy is never clarified, despite being a potentially large plot hole.
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A plot error, or a plot hole as it is commonly known, reflects a failure in the consistency of the created fictional world. A character might state he was an only child, yet later mention a sibling. In the TV show Cheers, Frasier Crane's wife Lilith mentions Frasier's parents are both dead. When the character was spun off into Frasier, his father became a central character with, in a case of retroactive continuity, the explanation that Frasier was embarrassed about his father's lowbrow attitudes and thus claimed his death.
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Mr. Gus almost reveals the secret to Steven's shield before Pizza Steve enrages him by defacing a drawing he has made, and Steven and Uncle Grandpa are sucked into a giant Belly Bag. The Gems, meanwhile, escape from the plot hole after Garnet literally breaks the fourth wall. They arrive to see Uncle Grandpa, Steven, Lion, and Giant Realistic Flying Tiger having a tea party. Before they can attack Uncle Grandpa, Steven tries to stop them, and finally summons his shield because he cares about Uncle Grandpa, to all their amazement.
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The film was principally edited by Mark Goldblatt. Skip Schoolnik, an editor who had simultaneously been commissioned to edit the television cut for the original Halloween, was invited by Carpenter and Hill to view the cut of Halloween II at the time. Schoolnik and Carpenter spent a weekend editing Goldblatt's cut of the film, ultimately excising around 14 minutes. During this editing process, Carpenter realized that an unresolved plot hole was present: It was unclear as to how Michael Myers was able to track Laurie to the hospital.
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When this plot hole was discovered, Reeves immediately told actor Nicky Henson, "All right, just shoot Vincent and I'll get Ian to scream and shout and go mad and freeze frame on Hilary Dwyer screaming." Several additional nude scenes were filmed during the production. Set in a pub and involving local "wenches", the sequences were reportedly solely intended for the movie's German release version. Reeves refused to take part in the filming of these sequences and they were completed by the crew after the "regular" versions of the scenes had been shot, with Tigon's Tenser acting as director.
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Mark Wright of The Stage was positive towards calling back to "The End of the World" and "New Earth", and praised Agyeman and the visual look of the episode. Despite finding the ending "life-affirming", he found a possible plot hole: "one wonders why the Face of Boe didn't just open the roof in the first place". DVD Talk's Nick Lyons compared the episode to "fine wine ... [it] gets better with age". Lyons wrote, "Not only does the episode contain stunning imagery (the Macra, the motorway), but 'Gridlock' also has some of the most touching scenes in "Doctor Who" history".
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Black described her experience stating "I admit I was a little star struck turning up to Ramsay Street and meeting everybody, but they all bent over backwards to help out and settle my nerves." The character has been subject to a plot hole in which she has been aged. In continuity terms Elle was born off-screen in October 1989, when she returned in 2005, she should have been sixteen. Retroactive continuity or the SORAS phenomenon occurred with Elle and her two on-screen brothers Cameron and Robert (both played by Adam Hunter) being aged to nineteen.
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Thus, this process is generally imperfect since, as with all narrative analysis and most forms of logic, different applications and interpretations can lead to differing conclusions. Narrative logic becomes explicit or even labored to create continuity where there is a plot hole or some intentional gap in a narrative, or to explain other unresolved issues within a narrative (i.e. questions such as "Did this character die or simply disappear?" or "Why did two instances under the same circumstances lead to different results?"). It may also be used for other purposes, such as answering theoretical questions derived from the narrative (i.e.
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Upon finding and reading the manuscript of Paul's latest Snuggly Jeff book, Stewie is infuriated about the main character's death and forces Paul to rewrite it and bring Snuggly Jeff back to life, holding him hostage until he manages to do so. Stewie rejects the idea of bringing Snuggly Jeff back to life with a child's wish, calling it bad storytelling and comparing it to a plot hole in the film Contact. After sending Stewie out for more paper, Paul finds several news articles in an album that imply Wilkes is actually a serial killer. Just then, the local sheriff (Joe) appears, and is surprised to find Paul there.
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Like Green, he enjoys the acting: "Nimoy gets a chance to ham it up here, and it really pays off. He has a half-smirk on his face most of the time, and he makes a great contrast to the somewhat overplayed nobility of Sargon and Thalassa and their love". He gives the episode a B+. Melissa N. Hayes-Gehrke of the University of Maryland found it "a nearly classic TOS plot, with god-like aliens, beings made only of energy, promises of advanced technology, and the realization that god-like powers are absolutely corrupting". She argued, though, that a "big and frustrating plot hole" is Sargon's dismissal of the idea that Starfleet might build them android bodies.
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Hyperion has access to seemingly all electronics on the planet and is an incredibly powerful supercomputer all on its own, and he can provide this information to his Voice, giving them surveillance of the entire world. In addition, Hyperion, obviously, has access to the internet and can directly stream any information into his Voice's brain. For this reason, it is unlikely that its Voice was unaware of its chest beam during their first fight, and the fact that it was never used again is either a plot hole or some yet unexplained reason. Hyperion also provides his Voice with life support, allowing both the mech and its Voice to survive in space and underwater or any other atmosphere that is hostile to human life.
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President Baltar was written out entirely, and Commander Xavier or Doctor Xavier was created to take up his role as the villain. The premise of setting the series thirty years after the original series created a plot hole in that the original series ended with a video transmission being picked up by the Galactica from the Apollo moon landing, meaning that the original series would have to have taken place sometime after 1969 by Earth's calendar. A thirty-year journey would mean that the Colonial Fleet could not have possibly reached Earth until the turn of the 21st Century rather than in 1980. After the pilot was completed, the network was unhappy with the time travel aspects of the story, which was intended to be an ongoing premise in each episode as the Colonials chased Xavier through different periods in Earth's history.
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However, he did praise Curran's "great performance" along with the episode's treatment of depression, concluding like Wollaston that he enjoyed the episode despite his misgivings. One of the most negative reviews came from Gavin Fuller in The Telegraph, who criticised it as a "bland, inconsequential episode that, once it set up what was a decent enough premise...completely failed to run with it". He compared it unfavourably with the third series episode "The Shakespeare Code" in being centred round a historical "tormented artist" but wrote that it lacked that episode's "narrative drive", with "a serious plot hole" in Van Gogh's ability to see the creature and that the Krafayis was "the most pointless monsters ever to appear in the series' long history". He also criticised Smith's Doctor and wrote that Van Gogh still committing suicide despite the trip to the Orsay was "nonsensical".
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By extension, handwaving is used in literary, film and other media criticism of speculative fiction to refer to a plot device (e.g., a scientific discovery, a political development, or rules governing the behavior of a fictional creature) that is left unexplained or sloppily explained because it is convenient to the story, with the implication that the writer is aware of the logical weakness but hopes the audience will not notice or will suspend disbelief regarding such a macguffin, deus ex machina, continuity error or plot hole. The fictional material "handwavium" (a.k.a. "unobtainium", among other humorous names) is sometimes referred to in situations where the plot requires access to a substance of great value and properties that cannot be explained by real-world science, but is convenient to solving, or central to creating, a problem for the characters in the story.
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Steven finds the moral in all this to not attack strangers for what they have to say or their opinions. The Gems all apologize, and Uncle Grandpa leaves on Giant Realistic Flying Tiger, reminding the viewer to "stay weird" and checking Steven off a list of other CN protagonists: Dexter and Dee Dee (Dexter's Lab), Blossom, Bubbles and Buttercup (The Powerpuff Girls), Ed, Edd n Eddy, Billy and Mandy (The Grim Adventures of Billy & Mandy), Mac (Foster's Home for Imaginary Friends), Juniper Lee (The Life and Times of Juniper Lee), Flapjack (The Marvelous Misadventures of Flapjack) and Finn (Adventure Time), as well as the Hanna-Barbera-created SWAT Kats, leaving Clarence as the last one on the list. The screen at the end of the episode says "In loving memory of Pizza Steve", because Amethyst had eaten him while in the plot hole.
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The pseudo-history assembled by Clymer cast Randolph as the legitimate heir of an ancient Rosicrucian tradition in America. This was accomplished by turning many people Randolph mentioned running into members of various occult organizations secretly connected to ancient Egyptian Rosicrucians, known members into masters of groups they were members of, and an unknown young man who met Eliphas Levi into none other than a young Randolph. If Clymer lacked a starting point or could not fill a plot hole, he claimed that such gaps were the result of the destruction of records by enemies of Randolph's (and Clymer's) Fraternitas. In addition to the standard claims of Western Occultism of ties to famous Neoplatonists, alchemists, magicians, Clymer also connected Randolph's "order" to Abraham Lincoln, Napoleon III, Alexandre Saint-Yves d'Alveydre, Papus, Albert Pike, and the Count of St. Germain.
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But in the 1985 Cambridge Shakespeare edition of the play, Philip Edwards argued that these were deliberate cuts by Shakespeare. For Hamlet, famously procrastinating about his revenge, to suddenly show such resolve and a concrete plan to do away with Rosencrantz and Guildenstern is out of character, and, as the plan outlined is what ends up happening in the play, the speech gives away the plot and lessens the suspense. It is also a plot hole in that Hamlet, at this point in the play, has no way of actually knowing that Claudius plans to have him killed in England, nor even that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are to be his travelling companions. The audience is aware that Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are to be his companions, as they've seen Claudius instructing them so at the beginning of Act 3, Scene 3, but the plot to have him killed is otherwise not discussed until Act 4, Scene 3.
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Phoebe performs the song as a duet with Rob, portrayed by musician Chris Isaak, although Phoebe criticizes his rendition, suggesting that the singer refrain from incorporating his signature high-pitched yodeling in favor of "a more masculine note". Phoebe also leads her friends in a sing- along version of "Smelly Cat" at Central Perk, each of whom contribute a solo, except Ross Geller (Schwimmer) because there are no more lines. In season five's "The One with Joey's Bag", Phoebe's estranged father Frank Buffay reveals that he used to sing her a lullaby called "Sleepy Girl", which shares "Smelly Cat"'s melody, as a baby, further establishing "Smelly Cat" as a fundamental aspect of Phoebe's life story. However, Sam Ashurst of Digital Spy identified this as a plot hole, since Phoebe had previously confirmed that her father abandons her before she was born, therefore he could not have been present to sing to her.
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