Long running series huge plot holes

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Anonymous wrote:MASH. Historical events were out of order and characters wives names, family and hometowns kept changing. Not to mention the outdoor/outdoor set and the indoor/outdoor set.

Mash lasted longer than the Korea conflict.

The things you mentioned are more continuity issues than plot holes.

Col. Potter’s wife was Mildred, Radar’s from Ottumwa and had an Uncle Ed, Klinger was from Toledo, divorced once, twice married, Margaret was an army brat who married and divorced to Donald penobscot, pierce was from crabapple cove, Charles was from Boston, bj’s wife was peg and his kid was Erin, frank’s wife was Louise. I don’t remember Henry’s wife was Lorraine. I think his character was the only one who’s wife originally went by a different name in season 1.

Hawkeye was from Vermont and had a summer home in maine in the first season. Plus, he had a sister and living parents. Potter had one son uand then suddenly the son turned into a daughter. He was going to become a grandfather for the first time in season four and then had a six year old granddaughter season five.

There were lots of mistakes.

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Anonymous wrote:TV is about escapism. Watching a parent juggle a child is not escape. Kids are not interesting or entertaining or it's a family sitcom type show that they don't really make anymore. I agree, the kids thing bugs me, but I also would stop watching the show if all it became was them taking care of kids.

I get that, but then Roz should not have had Alice.

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Anonymous wrote:The Americans. They really left those kids alone when they were on joint operations all night?

Yes. Also, they were always driving between places like Falls Church, Silver Spring,Georgetown in no time at all. They never got stuck in traffic!

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Why won't those guys on Big Bang Theory fix that elevator? After all, they are the ones who broke it. And why don't the other tenants complain about the broken elevator?

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Anonymous wrote:The Americans. They really left those kids alone when they were on joint operations all night?

Yes. Also, they were always driving between places like Falls Church, Silver Spring,Georgetown in no time at all. They never got stuck in traffic!

True about the traffic!

I thought that in season 1 there was an episode where the kids had a babysitter at night.

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Anonymous wrote:

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Anonymous wrote:The Americans. They really left those kids alone when they were on joint operations all night?

Yes. Also, they were always driving between places like Falls Church, Silver Spring,Georgetown in no time at all. They never got stuck in traffic!

True about the traffic!

I thought that in season 1 there was an episode where the kids had a babysitter at night.

In the pilot, yes.

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Anonymous wrote:Why won't those guys on Big Bang Theory fix that elevator? After all, they are the ones who broke it. And why don't the other tenants complain about the broken elevator?

That’s a plot device so characters have somewhere to be other than the apartments to deliver dialogue. It’s also a running gag. Like you never actually see maris in Frasier.

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Anonymous wrote:MASH. Historical events were out of order and characters wives names, family and hometowns kept changing. Not to mention the outdoor/outdoor set and the indoor/outdoor set.

Mash lasted longer than the Korea conflict.

The things you mentioned are more continuity issues than plot holes.

Col. Potter’s wife was Mildred, Radar’s from Ottumwa and had an Uncle Ed, Klinger was from Toledo, divorced once, twice married, Margaret was an army brat who married and divorced to Donald penobscot, pierce was from crabapple cove, Charles was from Boston, bj’s wife was peg and his kid was Erin, frank’s wife was Louise. I don’t remember Henry’s wife was Lorraine. I think his character was the only one who’s wife originally went by a different name in season 1.

Hawkeye was from Vermont and had a summer home in maine in the first season. Plus, he had a sister and living parents. Potter had one son uand then suddenly the son turned into a daughter. He was going to become a grandfather for the first time in season four and then had a six year old granddaughter season five.

There were lots of mistakes.

Those mistakes are continuity issues.

Not plot holes b/c these details made little impact on the actual plot.

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Anonymous wrote:The Americans. They really left those kids alone when they were on joint operations all night?

Yes. Also, they were always driving between places like Falls Church, Silver Spring,Georgetown in no time at all. They never got stuck in traffic!

Yes, the Americans has lots of issues like this but what annoys me THE MOST is how little it looks like DC and how obviously it looks like Long Island. What huge body of water are they always supposed to be standing by? The Potomac?

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Anonymous wrote:Supernatural has so many. End of the first season brother have huge scars on the face that just disappear later on. Before they found their healing angel.

Watching the show now!

Gossip Girl had so many plot holes...Chuck’s mother, Georgina’s husband and baby disappear and she ends up with Jack, Lily’s sister in jail, etc.

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Anonymous wrote:Gilmore Girls---Lane and Dave never break up, she's just suddenly dating the other guy.

Revival--Rory and Logan never acknowledge that she turned down his proposal before he got engaged to the other woman or the fact that he quit his family business.

IIRC, when news of the revival first hit the airwaves, Amy Sherman Palladino was asked if there was anything that happened in Season 7 that she was going to undo in the revival. She mentioned that there was only one thing that she was upset about and that they could work around it. All sources thought it was Logan's proposal. I think that belief was solidified when the revival aired because Lorelai and Luke end up talking about her brief season 7 marriage to Christopher, and because Lane and scruffy-guy are still married. The only thing that ASP ignored was the Logan proposal.

I hated that revival btw - talk about plot holes. Oh yeah, Rory was a 35 year old wunderkind who apparently did NOTHING but write one published article between graduating from Yale and the winter she returns to Stars Hollow. She should've just married Logan.

Interesting...i thought the one thing she didn't like was the fact that Lane had kids. The revival was definitely written as season 7/8 imo. The timing would make so much more sense for Rory if she were 22-25 and straight out of college rather than 35.

Wait? I thought Rory was supposed to be 30?

Was she really supposed to be 35 and still aimlessly looking for jobs and having done nothing? Doesn’t make sense...

She was 32. Same age as Laurelai when the original show began. But yeah, I agree that she might as well have married Logan if she was going to be so aimless.

So aimless - and also still pining for/sleeping with him!

Rory is a challenging character. We were supposed to think of her as this magical hard-working genius who'd let nothing get in her way - but it turns out she just sort of likes being wealthy and drifting, as she gets older. She was moving in that direction toward the end of the original GG anyway, but I wish that the show seemed to understand that that's who she is and who she'd become.

Anyway, I digress!

Whatever happened to the Russian who fled in the Pine Barrens, in the Sopranos?

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Anonymous wrote:The Americans. They really left those kids alone when they were on joint operations all night?

Yes. Also, they were always driving between places like Falls Church, Silver Spring,Georgetown in no time at all. They never got stuck in traffic!

Because it was the mid 80s. Nobody was getting stuck in traffic then. I remember being shocked the first time I hit traffic going across the Chain Bridge at rush hour--that was 1995. Now the traffic is like that every day, and worse than the traffic jam that made me wonder what happened back then.

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I loved Friday Night Lights, but the plot holes in that series annoyed me. From what I recall, Jason Street and Tim Riggins were both seniors. They're talking in the first couple of episodes about high school ending and what they're going to do...yet Tim apparently becomes basically...a sophomore...? So they can keep him in high school for a few more years on the football team? I never understood it. It was like he became the same age as Landry and Saracin. That drove me crazy.

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Anonymous wrote:Why did everyone on Gilligan's Island have so much stuff with them for a 3 hour tour?

Really it was the Howells and Ginger. Everyone else pretty much wore the same thing but some mysteries will never be answered.

Along these lines, how did they keep their one set of clothes so clean?!

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Anonymous wrote:Bugs me that babies were just plot points and IRL they are kinda in your life for 18+ years: happened on Friends with Ross and Frazier with Roz. They never really parented and we’re always available for work and play and everything, like they didn’t have a kid anymore.

That always bugged me, too. Ross had two kids and we barely saw the first one, then when Emma was born, I don't think the first one was ever mentioned again. Then Rachel decided to take a job in Paris with no thought at all about Emma.

Enma always seemed to be at Rachel’s moms, who seemed way too self involved to be left w a baby.