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A comment on The Battle of Helm’s Deep, Part I: Bargaining for Goods at Helm’s Gate. Parent comment

Re:The Battle of Helm’s Deep, Part I: Bargaining for Goods a... by darkerside on Saturday January 29, 2022 @07:54AM (#30125892)
What makes you say plot holes do not matter? That seems like a problem in any narrative writing.
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Re:The Battle of Helm’s Deep, Part I: Bargaining for Goods a... by chongli on Saturday January 29, 2022 @09:32AM (#30126552)
Plot holes matter in direct proportion to the seriousness of the work. People care a lot more about plot holes in The Lord of the Rings than they do in The Colour of Magic.
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Re:The Battle of Helm’s Deep, Part I: Bargaining for Goods a... by kiba on Saturday January 29, 2022 @09:40AM (#30126607)
Plot holes are everywhere in stories, serious or not.

People who care about plot holes and internal consistency are the exception, rather than the norm.

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Re:The Battle of Helm’s Deep, Part I: Bargaining for Goods a... by mcphage on Saturday January 29, 2022 @10:37AM (#30127136)
People don’t always behave consistently. A lot of plot holes can be explained away that way, and readers/viewers instinctively do that, because they don’t have the assumption that people are consistent.
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