Suspension of disbelief, sometimes it's the small things I struggle with :(

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Take for example The Walking Dead, I'm all good with the whole Zombie scenario and that one random bloke in a coma can be left unmolested while it would appear that the entire hospital he was in was subject to an all out zombie deathmatch but I get slightly narked when it takes two coppers to layout a stinger and said stinger then manages to flip the back end of a car up causing a massive accident yet manages to do nothing to the following police persuit vehicles, it's not a hard thing for them to have gotten right and anybody who's spent thirty minutes watching any of the Cop shows knows it's wrong so why on earth do shows get so lazy about stuff like that?

Just seems that the closer to reality things are means the less I am able to accept them diverging from that reality unless it's for a specific purpose.

Am I alone or do others feel the same way?
 
The cars stopped before they hit the stinger did they not? That was what I saw anyway.:p

Although I do agree with you, the completely illogical things are fine, people can be flying around and blowing up buildings with their mind but if they do something slighly mundane "wrong" it stands out like a sore thumb...
 
I get that too with some things although not what you mention. Also may be worth putting spoiler tags on before the spoiler alert squad comes to get you.
 
Couldn't agree more with the OP - I recently re watched the Tom Cruise version of War of the Worlds. Suspending belief that aliens rode down in lightening to tripod machines buried deep underground. Why is it when they take down a jet plane which destroys the house and most of the surrounding area that Tom's car he parked in the driveway remains unaffected?
 
Most of the time it's not whether the suspension of disbelief is a big or small thing for me that is the issue - it's when the film then goes on to break its own self-imposed rules that I struggle. E.g. in Wanted (as the first thing that comes to mind) they start off with it being almost impossible to make a bullet curve in the air and even when you do it veers back to the original course; fine, I can accept that as part of the physics of that World but then at the end the bullet has to travel a full 360 degrees and suddenly it's no problem.
 
Take for example The Walking Dead, I'm all good with the whole Zombie scenario and that one random bloke in a coma can be left unmolested while it would appear that the entire hospital he was in was subject to an all out zombie deathmatch but I get slightly narked when it takes two coppers to layout a stinger and said stinger then manages to flip the back end of a car up causing a massive accident yet manages to do nothing to the following police persuit vehicles, it's not a hard thing for them to have gotten right and anybody who's spent thirty minutes watching any of the Cop shows knows it's wrong so why on earth do shows get so lazy about stuff like that?

Just seems that the closer to reality things are means the less I am able to accept them diverging from that reality unless it's for a specific purpose.

Am I alone or do others feel the same way?


The zombies are attracted to sound, a guy in a coma with a closed door would attract no zombies and non would try to break the door down without a reason.

It's consistent within the series's interpretation of zombies.
Also possible that all the roamers left the hospital following the commotion leaving behind the very passive lurkers who again would have no reason to break down the door or even notice it.
 
Stuff like this bugs me. I remember thinking during Phantom of the Opera "it's snowy. We should be able to see their breath"...
 
Argh, I totally feel for the OP. They spend millions on sets, special effects, makeup artists, actors, etc, but how many people do they hire to check a script for plot holes and continuity errors? Not enough, clearly.

I was watching Cargo tonight. It bugged the hell out of me that the engines on the ship were running all the damn time. For 3 years. And they weren't speeding up at all.

In fact the engines were still running moments before docking with a space station. And when they turned them off the ship stopped.

I was like "bugger me, this is the first sci-fi I've seen where they clearly have no idea about Newtonian motion". It bugged the crap out of me.

After accelerating continuously for 4 years, they should have hit that space station travelling at several million miles per hour :p
 
Surely the pursuing vehicles know their own tactics and seeing a roadblock ahead know there is almost certainly a stinger present and slow down? which is why they didn't hit the stinger and go tumbling through the air.

Also as mentioned not only was he in a coma in his own room but you will see the first thing he does leaving that room is have to move something that has been blocking the door.

Enough actual continuity errors exist within film and television without having to fabricate your own to get off on being angry over them.
 
Or in Independence Day where the invading aliens handily managed to include a USB port for Mr Goldblum to plug his laptop into and then make their future tech backwards compatible with a virus written in Windows. :confused:

If the Aliens they had just taken the time to install Avast, it could have so been so different... :rolleyes:
 
Surely the pursuing vehicles know their own tactics and seeing a roadblock ahead know there is almost certainly a stinger present and slow down? which is why they didn't hit the stinger and go tumbling through the air.

See above.

Also as mentioned not only was he in a coma in his own room but you will see the first thing he does leaving that room is have to move something that has been blocking the door.

Enough actual continuity errors exist within film and television without having to fabricate your own to get off on being angry over them.

I'll refer you to Weebull's post :)
 
First episode of the walking dead also, Rick Grimes (main cop character) gets shot in the upper chest area, near the armpit almost, when he awakes from his coma the wound has moved around 9" down towards his stomach area, really annoyed me :o

Continuity people!
 
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