tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post8385434624699047046..comments2024-03-29T04:38:14.302-04:00Comments on SleuthSayers: Have Caulk Will TravelLeigh Lundinhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/07921276795499571578noreply@blogger.comBlogger5125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-324907391256572742023-01-16T10:49:05.094-05:002023-01-16T10:49:05.094-05:00Thanks, everyone, for your comments!Thanks, everyone, for your comments!Joseph D'Agnesehttps://www.blogger.com/profile/06718912272076700465noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-74871484509192362142023-01-15T10:50:47.986-05:002023-01-15T10:50:47.986-05:00This is a delayed reply, sorry, but I've found...This is a delayed reply, sorry, but I've found talking through plot holes with other writers can be helpful. Sometimes someone else will see an obvious solution that the author doesn't because she's too close to the matter.Barb Goffmanhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/16013123434790272424noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-81433841169193837152023-01-14T09:45:40.151-05:002023-01-14T09:45:40.151-05:00Leigh - worst plot hole of all time (imho) in a &q...Leigh - worst plot hole of all time (imho) in a "thriller" is in "A Simple Plan" - where no one, not even the sheriff, checks to credentials of the so-called FBI agent. Complete BS, because no sheriff, in any rural area I've ever lived in, would EVER do anything without making sure that this stuck-up jackass from Washington is who he says he is. <br /><br />BTW< I don't mind plot holes in things like the Indiana Jones franchise, or any other pure fantasy movie. Eve Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03015761600962360110noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-51984072384185984342023-01-14T03:29:17.979-05:002023-01-14T03:29:17.979-05:00You are a caulking gunslinger!
I finished watchin...You are a caulking gunslinger!<br /><br />I finished watching Echoes on Netflix, which poses the question: How can the actors do such a fine job (especially Karen Robinson as Sheriff Floss) and the miniseries be so awful? Plot holes for one thing, huge ragged, gaping ones. I'm not sure the plot could have sped up enough to leap those holes. It would have taken a caulking gun the size of a howitzer.Leigh Lundinhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/07921276795499571578noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-3119105822589181967.post-30341068220107333562023-01-13T08:21:47.519-05:002023-01-13T08:21:47.519-05:00Joe, don't worry about it so much. Here are t...Joe, don't worry about it so much. Here are two classic, and I mean CLASSIC, examples of holes from Victorian times:<br />Wilkie Collins, in his "The Woman in White", had the crux of the plot revolve around a specific period of time - which he got wrong:<br />"The most well known error of chronology is that first described in The Times of 30 October 1860. The plot relies on the fact that Laura’s departure for London took place the day after Anne Catherick had died under Laura’s name. In the book edition the date of that death was 26 July whereas as the reviewer points out ‘…we could easily show that Lady Glyde could not have left Blackwater Park before the 9th or 10th of August. Anybody who reads the story, and who counts the days from the conclusion of Miss Halcombe’s diary, can verify the calculation for himself.’ <br />This was corrected in future editions, and has never spoiled my fun with one of my favorite books.<br /><br />And in Anthony Trollope's "Doctor Thorne", the crux of the plot is that no one in the entire village, nor any of the local Squire's family, with whom Dr. Thorne has placed his niece, Mary Thorne, for an education, have any idea that Mary is the bastard daughter of Dr. Thorne's sister and an alcoholic stonemason - and by the time the story commences that stonemason is the richest man in the county. This is simply unbelievable. I only moved to Madison, SD in 1990 and even I know a couple of really juicy illegitimate stories from the 1950s with it's ongoing repercussions. <br /><br />So you're not the only one! Eve Fisherhttps://www.blogger.com/profile/03015761600962360110noreply@blogger.com