Problems and Plot Holes: A Fan's Disapproval

Those irky little things you find in your fandoms? We're here to point them out. (Sherlock, Star Trek, Doctor Who, or whatever strikes our fancy. So pretty much anything)

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Sarah Paulson attends AOL Build Series at AOL Studios In New York on November 17, 2015 in New York City.

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The Hobbit: The Battle of the Five Armies

Yes, I realize the added characters give a bit more drive and tension in the movie, but some parts (if not most parts), it’s a bit too much.

Example: way too drawn-out death scenes of Azog and Kili/Tauriel Honestly, I don’t think we needed to watch Azog floating under the ice for that long. And I’m sure it was an experience that Thorin felt was “appeasing”, or a way of him finishing his vengeance against Azog, but did he really have to keep watching Azog floating and following him from on top of the ice? Dammit, Thorin, coulda saved yourself a lotta trouble if you had just walked away. Then you woulda had more time to turn around and have a better chance with fighting Azog after he bursts out from the ice. Then there’s Kili’s death with Tauriel “watching from afar” and gasping, etc. That was way too much time taken up flipping back-and-forth between them gasping and Kili dying. Personally, I would’ve liked it better if Kili had just been stabbed, maybe a shout, then die quickly. Then we can move on to Tauriel gasping and maybe crying out “No!” and then fighting Bolg.

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Divergent diverges from the book (Part 3)

That scene at the end

Yes, it was clever. But it was very different.

In this end, Tris injects Jeanine with the mind-control serum in order to make her shut down her own program, omitting the entire sequence with Tobias being made to control and oversee the serum-infected Dauntless.

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Divergent diverges from the book (Part 2)

Why is Jeanine always there?

Because she is.

Um.

Just.

She had a lot of scenes compared to pages in the book.

Done with this one.

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Divergent diverges from the book (Part 1)

Why is Four so much older than Tris?

In the book, Four is eighteen when he and Tris meet first, making them only a couple of years apart. Which makes their romance generally socially acceptable, correct?

So why then is the film's Four (even if we pretend that he's not the same age as Theo James) closer to eight years older than Tris?"

Not sure about the rest of you, but that's sounding a little bit sketchy for an American-based, if dystopian, society.

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The Monuments Men: A Weakly Romantic Devaluing of the Real Mission

Based on a true story, they said.

Well, what do we all know you expect from films that begin with that these days?

So it doesn't come as too much of a surprise that the story of the years-long mission of hundreds of people, covering all of Europe, was cut down to a tiny group of art experts during the final days of WWII retrieving a couple trucks of art.

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The Empty Hearse's empty street

SPOILERS: Sherlock explains that he had Mycroft clear the street, completely controlling the scene for his 'suicide'. But there are buildings lining the streets, one of them being Bart's itself, a hospital. Did they clear the buildings as well? Or did they leave open to chance the fact that someone working in Bart's could look out the window and see a giant blue air cushion on the ground outside?

Or did Sherlock even tell the truth about the Fall? He's Sherlock, after all. Maybe we haven't heard the true story yet after all this time...

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The Hobbit: The Desolation of Smaug

Only a few complaints on this one:

First of all, what's with Tauriel? Honestly, the romance bit between her and Kili added nothing to the story but long sequences of staring and mushy dialogue.

And then, in the scenes in Erebor, why did Smaug have such a hard time finding the dwarves he was chasing? If he has such a superior sense of smell, how is it that he managed to pass directly over the entire group without sensing them?

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Star Trek: Voyager's Doctor - A recurring string of problems

Ever since VOY season 3, episode 9, (SPOILER) The Doctor has had a mobile emitter, allowing him to transfer his holo-matrix from sick bay so he can be anywhere. So, cool right? Well, If you have watched further, you may have noticed when The Doctor is transferred from the mobile emitter to the sickbay, the mobile emitter is not always accounted for. Sometimes it just disappears, and at least once (s5e3), it even fades out with him, which makes no sense because it is solid matter, unlike The Doctor, who is a hologram.

THE DOCTOR'S BACKUPS

The Doctor is always worried about losing his holo-matrix, and so is rest of the voyager crew. They seem to forget The Doctor is a piece of technology and he has backups. So if he was "lost" he always has a previous version of himself. So why do they panic?

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The Doctor, as we all believe, has twelve regenerations, equaling thirteen lives. Peter Capaldi is, as we all know, going to be the Twelfth Doctor. But will he be the last?

John Hurt's Doctor, the War Doctor, is technically the true Ninth Doctor, or at least the ninth regeneration of the Doctor. So are the lives of the Doctor coming to a close, ending with Capaldi?

And, more importantly, were we, the fandom, cheated of a whole regeneration? We really get very little of the War Doctor...

We were promised thirteen Doctors!

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Star Trek Into Darkness: plot holes in a nutshell

The two big ones:

1. Khan's Blood- When Capt. Kirk dies, he needs an infusion of Khan's blood. Or so they think, but apparently even the Vulcan First Officer doesn't notice that there are seventy-two more Augments on the ship. (Or maybe they just didn't want to kill Benedict Cumberbatch)

The second part- The Khan's Blood thing? Just killed off any conflict ever in the future. They cured death. That's pretty big. "Just take with you on every trip a vial of this stuff and you can survive any illness or injury." Unless, of course, they conveniently forget about it later...

2. Trans-warp Beaming- That little thing in the 2009 movie that Scotty purportedly invents in the future and Spock Prime brought back with him? Apparently able to transport someone from a ship moving at warp to another ship moving at warp, or to effect interstellar travel?  So why does the Enterprise get into that mess with the ship in the beginning? Why does Scotty need to sneak onto the Vengeance by shuttle? Why, in fact, do they need starships at all anymore?

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So apparently Ten and the War Doctor forgot all about the events of The Day of the Doctor. So why then does Eleven know when he's supposed to throw the fez through the time fissure?