• Sunsofold@lemmings.world
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    17 hours ago

    Normal people living in an apartment big enough to be a sound stage?

    Medical issues in an American show where no one seems worried about how to afford the care?

    People being clever and quippy through an entire conversation? Especially without seeming like a prick? And with long pauses where editors can put in a laugh track?

    Similarly, people making highly self-aware expressions of their feelings, especially at work or in public?

    Every person in some organization being fit and attractive?

    Technology working perfectly and requiring only 1~3 seconds to do anything, unless the plot calls for it to dramatically fail?

    People starting a sentence, going somewhere else, and then finishing the sentence?

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    20 hours ago

    The convenient plot device of hitting someone on the head just right to knock them out in one hit without causing brain damage or death. Oh, and the person just wakes up, rubs their head for a second, and they’re back to normal.

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      18 hours ago

      This is my biggest issue I’ve found rewatching daredevil, he’s so against killing people yet the number of people he’s knocked out would mean he’s killed many or given a lot of people brain damage.

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        17 hours ago

        It’d be funny to see a superhero make this explicit.

        After killing 30 people by snapping their necks, spraying them in the face with poison gas, manipulating them with torture or torture by proxy with their kids, etc.:

        ‘I’m morally superior because I don’t draw blood. It doesn’t matter if they die. I don’t draw blood.’

        ‘That guy coughed up some blood after what you did to him.’

        ‘NOOOOOOOOOOOOOO! I’m morally conflicted now!’

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    21 hours ago

    Someone calling you to turn the telly on and the presenter just starts recapping what happened.

    Let’s be fair, if you turn on the telly, you will be half way through some random “expert” spouting some conjunction and you will have no idea what is going on.