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Normalise removing your interest and presence from bullshit situations 👏🏻

What about a free and available parking spot in front of every location they're driving to?

I work in IT, don't get me started on things that don't make sense. I was genuinely shocked when I watched Mr. Robot and thought omg they actually tried!

I count bullets. If someone with a revolver fires off 20 rounds in a row without a pause, the show/movie lost credibility and I'm taken out of it. Extra bad if they later try to use ammo as a plot device to raise drama, ugh.

I'll accept whatever the premise of the thing asks of me to enjoy the story; that dragons exist, the main character finds a real spellbook, there's a secret community of shapeshifters, or that there's a long-lost secret artifact with magical properties. It's not a documentary.

But breaking internal logic is different. Unless someone's mentioned time travel, it's still a huge issue that it was Sunday in one scene and Friday in another on the same day.

Some people hate 'The Hulk' because they can buy genetic mutation that turns him giant and green, sure... But where the fuck is the extra body mass coming from? You can't just gain weight from nothing. Yes, magic does exist in the MCU, but he didn't get his powers from magic, did he?!

This is called verisimilitude. Self consistency. If you present the setting as Our World + Premise, then we are forgiving of the premise part but not so much of the unrelated things that don't match what we were told to expect.

There's suspending disbelief, and then there's suspending disbelief.

I’m like this if a movie’s plot can only happen because of bad communication.

I just want a movie where somebody "says turn on the TV", and the main character does, and it's just halfway through an episode of The Big Bang Theory or something because who's tuned to the news channel.

Not exactly the same, but the only time I've seen Cloverfield, my dad was watching it. He fast-forwarded through everything that wasn't giant monsters. The movie was about 40 minutes long, and I think it's my preferred cut.

I'mma about to ruin medical shows/scenes for y'all. And once you see this, you cannot unsee it. the source for all this is the 15 years I spent riding in the back of the bus as a medic.

When you see a scene in the ER and a critical patient arrives, all the doctors go rushing into the exam room and start doing things and arguing about what to do. If we put this stupidity aside for a moment and roll back the scene to the beginning we will see the mistakes the show makes every time.

First, doctors don't rush into the exam room the moment the patient arrives. The doctor, just one and not a whole squad of them, will wait for a moment or two to let the medics and nurses get the patient on to a bed and the triage nurse gets the medic's report.

When the Medics and the cot leaves the room, the doctor will walk to the doorway and stop. Most of them will actually lean against the door jam and just look for a minute or so. They are making their first assessment of the patient from that distance and begin to formulate a treatment plan. Doctors are ACTUALLY TAUGHT to do this medical school. And they practice it because it's hard to remember in an oh shit moment and hard to do. Even us medics are taught the same thing. If the TV doctor does NOT do this, this is your first warning that this a bullshit medical show no matter what the producers and actors claim about realism. This is basic and fundamental to ER medicine and would be soooo easy to do. This is the point where I'm out and ne'er to be seen again.

The second mistake that gets made is that the doctors themselves do very little of the actual treatment of the patient. They stand off to the side and tell the nurses what they want them to do. The nurses do most of the work. The doctor observes and directs. Only if a procedure that requires a doctors skill and knowledge to do, do they get hands on. So that's the second bullshit thing in these shows.

And finally, doctors do not consult in the patient's room unless it absolutely can't be avoided. Which is very rare. They have a room, generally behind the nurses station where they go for that. I have been in there with doctors on occasions when I asked for a teaching moment to further my skills as a medic from one of them. And no matter what hospital, that's where we would go.

My wife loves hocus pocus.

Every year I'm like... That zippo wouldn't light. The fluid would have evaporated ages ago. Look at the cobwebs, it's obviously been there for years.

She just reaches over, softly touches my and says 7u5k3n, it's a movie.

Lol

So yeah there's nothing wrong here.

Edit: softly touches my arm. Haha apparently I I accidentally'd a word

I stopped watching Stranger Things because in a show about demons from a parallel universe invading a small town, I couldn't get over a soccer mom breaking her friend out of a Russian prison camp.

That broke the realism for me.

I'm like this when something gets very basic technology wrong.

Dude I'm all for suspending disbelief but I feel this so hard. Like, sure, there's werewolves and you have silver bullets which in this universe don't melt and tumble, but that's a Beretta 92FS, you have 15+1 silver shots before a reload, not infinite, and you can't use your infinite Berettas to cut a hole in the floor.

It didn't stop me from finishing Prometheus, but what grinds my gears is when the supposedly biologist was trying to pet the alien and it attacked him. Any trained biologist would know not to try to pet animals which you don't know if it's timid or not.