Since the latest season hasn’t concluded yet, let’s only look at plot holes from 1990 and before.
The whole wrapping up world war 2 using “the gadget” just reeks of writers struggling to wrap up after writing themselves into a corner.
The writers keep doing this shit.
The Berlin Wall arc just abruptly ended because they announced that East Germans could freely travel to the west and ‘conveniently’ forgot to mention there were still some regulations. Then the Border guards ‘conveniently’ said “fuck it” and let people pass without checking passports.
They built up the Epstein island arc like mad only to end it with him killing himself in prison and then never mention it again.
Eppstein didn’t kill himself.
The end of WW2 was a complex political issue, and the atomic bombs were not the ‘press here, end war’ that most of us believe.
The Japanese we’re holding out hope (stupidly) that the Soviet Union would negotiate a conditional surrender with the united States as the end of the imperial system was unacceptable to them. The US had floated that if there was an unconditional surrender, that the imperial system would stay intact, but wanted it to seem like a US condition, not a Japanese one, because that would be a conditional surrender.
The Soviets always intended to invade, but were held by a nonaggression pact they made with the Japanese. The US pressured the Soviets very hard to violate this and invade Manchuria.
There was literally a Japanese war cabinet convened already when news of Nagasaki reached them. We have actual primary source for their reactions. They did not care.
Only once the second bomb dropped and Manchuria was invaded did some of the cabinet manage to convince the emporer to intervene which was extremely rare.
Bro, facts be ruining the joke. I’m not here to learn.
Legend Of Korra season 4 vibes
duck billed platypus
The details around the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand really jump the shark. Must’ve been a drug-fueled writing session on that one
one drunk dude with a pistol changing the course of the whole world?
Don’t ignore the whole other stuff with the failed bombing etc.
From wikipedia:
At 10:10 am,[75] Franz Ferdinand’s car approached and Čabrinović threw his bomb. The bomb bounced off the folded back convertible cover into the street.[76] The bomb’s timed detonator caused it to explode under the next car, putting that car out of action, leaving a 1-foot-diameter (0.30 m), 6.5-inch-deep (170 mm) crater,[75] and wounding 16–20 people.[77]
Čabrinović swallowed his cyanide pill and jumped into the Miljacka river. Čabrinović’s suicide attempt failed, as the old cyanide only induced vomiting, and the Miljacka was only 13 cm deep due to the hot, dry summer.[78] Police dragged Čabrinović out of the river, and he was severely beaten by the crowd before being taken into custody.
Just the mental image of him chucking himself into a river after the failed bombing and then also failing his suicide on two fronts…
This is why you buy the 2nd cheapest cyanide pills, not the cheapest.
Lmfaooo
Not at all. Things were a powder keg. If it wouldn’t have blown at that point, then shortly thereafter.
When that one aired I assumed they were going to genre-shift into dark comedy or slapstick, but they… really, really didn’t.
You haven’t seen Blackadder? I thought the whole plot was a set up to the series.
“The War to End All Wars” was a good season finale, but then just 20 years later they made a sequel with bigger effects budget and openly evil villains. Lazy writing. And the way things have been written towards WWIII but then backing off is a long season tease.
The fact the Pepsi at one point had the 6th largest military in the world, and did nothing to conquer Coca-Cola.
Like, why even start that storyline if you dont take it to the inevitable conclusion?
Pepsi has also made huge profits in Russia since the west started sanctions.
Yes, they have. That’s why I don’t buy their products anymore.
The popularity of Harry Styles
Which was tough to achieve before 1990, but Harold Styles of Sioux Falls South Dakota pulled it off.
That guy was a king in South Dakota.
Lead singer of a mega famous boyband and one of Taylor Swift’s most famous exes.
We’ve def got a real mystery on our hands, Grommit
Where all the aliens are.
That DB Cooper storyline was never resolved.
Lots of those. Characters just falling out of the narrative left and right.
Those aren’t plot holes. They’re upper story windows conveniently located in Russia.
Are we supposed to believe the largest most dominant military force in the world, Kublai Kahn’s Mongol fleet was defeated by some inclement weather… TWICE?? Lazy writing.
Inclement weather, just FYI. Although, your spelling also makes a lot of sense in the current times…
Not bashing your point though, that’s a good one.
My turn to learn a new fact today. Wild that I’ve never realised it was spelt that way.
The Trump storyline is taking way too long to reach a definitive conclusion, and I’m not even confident that it will be a particularly satisfying one.
I know time got weird with the pandemic, but that was not actually before 1990, believe it or not.
That statement was also true before 1990, though.
I mean I was aware of him before 1990 and really could not understand how he was famous or successful. My brother is older than me and Trump came up on the news one day and he said “he’s either a criminal or his bankers are idiots”. We grew up quite a ways from NYC if you’re wondering.
The older you are the more insane this timeline seems. I knew he’d get elected. Racism and sexism put him over the top. Still felt like I was going crazy watching it.
Spoilers for future seasons: they try pretty hard to replicate the ratings bonanza of Chancellor Hitler storyline, but it veers way off into weird nonsense, and instead of any sort of satisfying conclusion eventually everyone just gets tired of him and he spends his last years muttering to himself at increasingly sadder and sadder rallies for his remaining geriatric fans.
Ha ha ha I totally misread the title. I thought it was 1990 and beyond. Whoops! Thanks for pointing that out!
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qualia/
We experience first-person sensations (consciousness/qualia) and it’s a big mystery what’s up with that.
My 6 year old was asking me about this a few weeks ago. He’s asking, how do our minds work? How did we come to be thinking and feeling and thinking about thinking? He says, “I know we’re made of cells, but how did the cells… find their voice?” He’s so fun.
Like a year prior to this, I stayed up all night trying to Google it, I guess for some reason I thought the answer would be a little clearer but apparently it’s highly debated and mostly unknown.
One approach that I’m reasonably sure is correct is “emergence”. A bunch of simple systems come together in a way that forms a more complex system than any of its individual parts. You can find this in many areas:
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computers are made up of very simple basic units that come together to do incredible things
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games can have simple systems that produce complex behaviour when taken together
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biological systems follow similar patterns
It just seems right that consciousness isn’t something that evolved as a standalone thing, but instead is the result of more and more simple systems coming together. We didn’t wake up screaming one night in the face of the sheer terror of existence, it was a choir that gradually got louder :)
Thanks for the ideas/explanation.
We didn’t wake up screaming one night in the face of the sheer terror of existence
speak for yourself
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That there wasn’t a single mainstream Republican who stood up to Trump during his presidency.
I mean, come on. Who wrote this?
We’re supposed to believe that EVERY SINGLE REPUBLICAN in government went from taking about how unfit Trump was when he was a candidate … to standing behind him 100% even when he cozied up to Russia, paid hush money to a porn star, and lied about a Presidential election?
How does this fit the prompt? They specified before 1990.
Some voted for impeachment. Still, far more should have defended democracy, decency, and the rule of law.
Feeding incubated humans to produce more energy than what is inputted.
Couldn’t they just suggest the computer overlord prime directive was hard-coded to keep humans alive at whatever cost?
Originally the machines were going to use human brains for processing, but apparently the explanation was deemed too technical, so they changed it to some mumbo jumbo about power, which also let them use the nickname Coppertop.
That is even better. Making humans into some perpetual energy machine seemed silly. If you are going to break a fundamental law of physics, why not use animals. At least they won’t fight back.
Although…
MORPHEUS: Where did you hear about the laws of thermodynamics, Neo?
NEO: Anyone who’s made it past one science class in high school ought to know about the laws of thermodynamics!
MORPHEUS: Where did you go to high school, Neo?
(Pause.)
NEO: …in the Matrix.
MORPHEUS: The machines tell elegant lies.
(Pause.)
NEO (in a small voice): Could I please have a real physics textbook?
MORPHEUS: There is no such thing, Neo. The universe doesn’t run on math.
Thanks for the reference. I couldn’t recall exactly how it was explained. Certainly most sci-fi requires you to suspend belief and that is fine. Often there are technologies employed to make a movie interesting. Technologies that are very unlikely to be possible.
In the Matrix, everyone was in a virtual reality and as you quoted, they could have entirely made up physics as we know it. Possibly a perpetual motion machine is viable in the real universe and that is the belief you need to suspend. Which again is fine But it is such a weak minor plot. If that were possible, why use humans? It should be possible with some algae slurry or by mechanical methods or as said, just use animals. Non if them would be a threat. In other words, what makes humans so unique that only they alone can fill this function?
As someone said earlier, the books suggested the computers wanted the processing power of the human brain. That is a fairly easy concept to explain, is an item unique to humans alone and actually in a far future society, might be something that is truely possible. It hardly required you to even suspend belief. Not sure why they didn’t go with that.
Yeah, I like the idea of using humans for computing. Or that they don’t want us dead. I just thought that the idea that all of Matrix-physics is a lie to be such a mind screw that I had to include it.
I don’t know about this series, but I play a game with the same name and absolutely hate it. It’s hugely pay to win with permadeath and the grind has nowhere near the payoff for the amount of effort you put in.
The low entropy of the past
Nobody has figured out who the Zodiac killer is yet? Come on, people!
I thought it was Ted Cruz
Yeah pretty sure this was wrapped up in the comics
