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.
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The details around the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand really jump the shark. Must've been a drug-fueled writing session on that one
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.
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 ΔabrinoviΔ 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 16β20 people.[77]
ΔabrinoviΔ swallowed his cyanide pill and jumped into the Miljacka river. ΔabrinoviΔ'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 ΔabrinoviΔ 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.
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Not at all. Things were a powder keg. If it wouldn't have blown at that point, then shortly thereafter.
"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.
That DB Cooper storyline was never resolved.
Lots of those. Characters just falling out of the narrative left and right.
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.
A few Prime Ministers have been peculiar plotholes. Harold Holt just disappeared. Whitlam got taken out by a madman influenced by the yanks and nominally working for the Queen. Sometimes it seems the writers just get bored of the storyline and drop stuff.
Lol - found my fellow Aussie!
Just to emphasise:
from 1990 and before
Folks can't read past the headline. Truly this site has arrived.
Idk man I wasn't alive then.
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.
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
Probably the stars that are older than the universe.
IIRC, they're too big to have formed in one of the ways we know and then continuously lost matter at the the rate they should have.
So one or more of the assumptions about how they could have formed or how they lost matter over time is wrong, right?
Nope. Older than the universe. Can't weasel your way out of this one science boy
Or we have the age of the universe wrong.
What did drugs ever do to start a war???
Well, the British were able to use drugs to start a war on China once. All in the name of cheap tea.
Some would say the fentanyl problem right now is payback for the opium thing
Because Dewey Cox never once paid for drugs.
If most people are good why doesn't the world get better without violence?
Thereβs a saying in German that my grandmother sometimes used, it roughly translates to βThe person is good but the people are badβ (Der Mensch ist gut, aber die Leut sind schlecht).
I like that.
Another quote that comes to mind is this, from the movie Men in Black (1997):
A person is smart; people are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it.
β Tommy Lee Jones, as Agent K
"Germans: so estimable in the individual, so execrable in the aggregate". -- paraphrase of Goethe
The Space Race ended without closing ceremonies.
That happens when goal posts are moved until both sides lose interest.
duck billed platypus
The Trump storyline is taking way too long to reach a definitive conclusion, and Iβm 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.
Ha ha ha I totally misread the title. I thought it was 1990 and beyond. Whoops! Thanks for pointing that out!
That statement was also true before 1990, though.
The low entropy of the past
Jet fuel can't melt steel beams π
Edit - too soon?
That's not a plot hole, even after 1990. There's no reason to melt it. Weakening is enough.
It's too soon to be sure you mean it ironically. Did you?
Gross
Where all the aliens are.
Id argue the last season ended with the US withdrawal from Afghanistan, if the season started with 9/11.
https://plato.stanford.edu/entries/qualia/
We experience first-person sensations (consciousness/qualia) and it's a big mystery what's up with that.
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