Whafuck?

At this point I’m just griping.

Another example: “go down on” in the oral sex sense should be familiar to Flower, Trevor, Alberta, and possibly Sasappis since he seems to have an easier time picking up modern English than the others.

Yeah, and if that was the only anachronism I could overlook it. Or if they didn’t emphasize “these guys don’t know new things” humor.

If they were taking more care, the ignorance of modern language should go down over time. It shouldn’t take too much modern TV to learn what “sucked off” means.

And maybe it would, that’s the point. It’s a tradeoff! That’s the art of it, you can’t stop the plot to explain everything that’s possible but brutally obvious, but too much “trust me bro” makes it difficult to watch. And I’d rather have the discussion than the clickbait of “KPOP DEMON PLOT HOLE!”

I never thought that the Death Star’s weakness was a plot hole or even a flaw in the story; as a programmer, I think a complex system with no flaws is much more difficult to believe. But if it was implausible, would it really have served the story to have a chunk of expository thrown in.

Even with more reasonable “plot holes,” the thing that annoys me is that by framing it as a binary—the plot either has a hole or doesn’t—it closes down a much more interesting discussion about the choices involved in writing fiction.

For example, I saw a video that pointed out a “plot hole” in KPop Demon Hunters that amounted to “since demons can impersonate the girls, they could have impersonated the girls instead of forming their own band.” It’s not a plot hole that they wrote a different movie than the one you thought of!

This actually underscores one of my peeves about the internet and film criticism: the overuse of the word “plot hole” to mean “thing that the work did not sufficiently explain to my satisfaction.” Or even, sometimes, “event that could have plausibly gone differently.”

Interesting! So far I like it in part because it’s often of heartwarming, so I’m sad to hear if it loses that.

For the record, I’m not saying “throuple” is impossible, she could have picked it up somewhere and retroactively applied it to her threesome/triad. But her whole thing is using old slang and she doesn’t know what “sucked off” means, so it’s jarring.

Indeed they do, but that strikes me as painting the lily.