Most obvious plot hole.

[S.R.S.]

Smurfs. The use of "smurf" for so many distinct words in an otherwise english language would lead to commonplace miscommunication.

Don't forget "Oompa, Loompa" We wouldn't sing "Human being, Human being"... Would we?

 

[Sarah Kerrigan]

How are the survivor in Left 4 Dead Immune? :/

 

[Kukakkau]

Star Wars Episode 2:

If the jedi aren't allowed to love, why were two obviously consenting 19-to-20-something-year-olds sent on an all expenses paid vacation to the planet-o-love?

I think Plinkett had far more material there than he actually used.

Also that the main way jedi powers seem to be passed down in the series is through bloodlines - how do people who are prohibited from loving have children? And there is tons of children training in the temple - how many people are breaking the rules??

 

[Odbarc]

Spoiler: Terminator

Why trust just ONE terminator to do the job. She barley killed one so just send in 5 or 6 to do the job better. And why not kill Sarah when she is no threat at all. A.K.A. When she's 5! There are so many point to exploit.

Prequel! Better yet, just have one terminator stalk him and record everywhere he's been and be his friend his whole life so when Judgment Day comes, give Skynet the information so you can pop a time sphere right outside his toilet. Then he gets murdered by a naked man without having time to wipe.

I think the major problem would be that, (not without it's own plot holes), certain people need to be alive for Skynet to come into existence. Having a band of terminators chasing one ***** would draw too much attention. (Think of the FF series excuses for limited numbers.)
But then again, Terminators randomly killing people at random (Hell, even Arnold in T2 tried to do this).
What if they killed the son of the guy who made Skynet and instead he commits suicide or goes postal at the pentagon and undoes all the work that creates Skynet?

 

[D0WNT0WN]

I don't get how in Inception...wait.

Spoiler

I don't get how DiCaprio's totem would help. The point of the totem is to prevent other people from fabricating a dream and screwing you over, right? The Asian guy's rug was a good example, 'cause how the hell were they meant to know what kind of texture it would have. This anomaly made him realise it's not real. However, DiCaprio's spinning top is so obvious. All anyone who is trying to trick him would have to do is make it fall over.

Furthermore, at the end they use it to imply that he might still be dreaming. However, if it's your own dream, can't you just imagine it falling over? The totems are there to stop others from tricking you, I thought. What's to stop you from tricking yourself, assuming you're so messed up you can't tell dream from reality anymore? Is there some dream-law which says your totem never lies?

And why did they never dream anything cool? If I could control my dreams I'd create some fucking dragons or something and give myself wings, not pull stupid mirrors out of nowhere. There are mirrors in real life.

Other than that,

Spoiler

Why did jesus have to die? I'm not kidding you, it doesn't make the slightest bit of sense to me. He died for our sins, but couldn't God have just chosen to forgive us without, you know, having his son suffer an agonising death? I'm not even bible bashing. Please explain this because I've obviously missed something HUGE.

EDIT: I probably didn't need to put the second one in spoiler tags, but whatever.

I can completly void Cobbs motivation with one question.

Why couldnt Michael Caine bring Cobbs children to France to see him?

 

[Nieroshai]

Spoiler: Halo Reach

Ok, so what...Cortana was made by the Forerunners? What? I mean, I guess that explains how the Autumn's random jump lead them to the Halo(it was random, right?), but I thought she has no idea what the Halos are! Even once she's plugged into it's computer system it takes her a while to figure it out! Well, how does that work? And one other thing! When she's given to Noble team, you see that she's about twice the size of a soda can. Yet when Master Chief recieves her (mere hours after you give her to Keys) she fits in the back of his head! WELL, HOW DOES THAT WORK??!!

I haven't played the game, but the novels explained it well enough: she was made from a clone of Halsey's brain, and Master Chief was chosen for her right out of basic training. If the game says Cortana wasn't in the series til the battle of reach, they're ignoring their own continuity.

 

[Nieroshai]

In regards to the second spoiler, God is good but he is also just. According to the Bible he cant just straight forgive sins because that would not be fair. There would have to be a sacrifice that would be equal to atonement ie Jesus. Because Jesus was pure and never sinned, his pure sacrifice was neccessary for anyone after him to be able to be redeemed. (not claiming or denouncing any faith just reciting from my old baptist school.
)

Is that from a specific passage you can remember? I'm not saying you're wrong, I just don't remember that part.

Try findinng a prophesy in the Bible that ISNT glowingly reciting how one day a noble sacrifice will free humanity from its imperfections, and a chapter in the New Testament that doesnt talk about Jesus being him. I'm sorry, but to answer you as you asked would take several pages.

 

[Nieroshai]

Well since people are trashing bad media, I'll target something thats otherwise amazing.

Spoiler: Mass Effect 2:

Mordin when working on his countermeasures has a collector swarm bug to work on. Where the hell did we get one of those? So much for no trace eh?

So, I've been meaning to ask all the Escapists about this one for ages. It's Halo Reach.

Spoiler: Massive Halo: Reach Spoilers

Okay, so in the second last mission of the game it's revealed that that Doctor Lady has discovered something underground in an alien temple, a "latchkey discovery" she calls it. Turns out it's Cortana, the AI you spend the rest of the entire Halo series hanging out with. So the final mission is to deliver this AI to Captain Keyes, on the Pillar of Autumn. As everyone knows, this is the ship you (the Master Chief) is on at the beginning of the first Halo game. It's explained at the beginning of that game that the Pillar of Autumn did a pretty much random slip space drive jump to avoid leading the Covenant fleet to Earth. Your job is then to escort Cortana off the ship and avoid the enemy capturing her.
SO the problem is: HOW THE HELL DOES CORTANA KNOW ALL THIS STUFF? We just dug her out of the ground a few hours ago, tops! Yet she acts like she's known the Captain, the crew and the Covenant for years! She apparently even knows Master Chief, who's been in cryo genic sleep the whole time!

Come to think of it, I'm pretty sure the manual for Combat Evolved straight up tells you Cortana is one of the most advanced AI's ever constructed by the human race. But we just dug her up! And how on earth did she "choose" the Master Chief as the Spartan she wanted to "work with"?! And what did she mean by "work with"?! She just got dug up, she has no idea where she's going, she has no idea they'll accidentally end up at the first Halo ring, she has no idea what it does!

I'm sorry, I loved Reach, but the discovery that the pay load was Cortana was totally bogus. It was a pointless "Aha!" moment directed at fan boys at the complete expense of the continuity of the storyline.

[/rant]

What?
I thought she was made by a Brain scan like all AI's. I was expecting the "Aha!" to be that she was a brain scan of Dr "I made the Spartans".

Last time I'm going to say this in this thread: read the novels. Or at least The Fall of Reach. It answers your speculations quite thoroughly.

 

[Nieroshai]

Oh my god, in before FF7 Areis' dieing. =o

In-game items are not canon to the plot. Except for when you're in control, Phoenix Downs and Potions DO NOT EXIST. Just like how Bahamut Zero can keep shooting the Earth with his death star beam and not wipe out all life on the planet. Or like how Tifa's Limit Break spawns a slot machine. In JRPGs items aren't usually canon unless included on purpose, and only exist to make gameplay fun as opposed to having to stay dead or go to the hospital for months to heal. So yes she's legitimately perma-dead.

 

[NeoShai]

How are the survivor in Left 4 Dead Immune? :/

In the Left 4 Dead Comic, (www.l4d.com/comic). It turns out that they are carriers and are immune to the virus but somehow keep infecting everyone they come in contact with.

 

[Chrono180]

In skies of Arcadia, the point of most of the game is to find six super-powerful mcguffins that can cause the end of the world when united. Why is it, then, that the main characters try to gather all the devices in one place where they can be easily stolen, rather than disposing of them one at a time by dropping them off the side of the giant floating islands that MAKE UP THE GAME'S SETTING?

 

[Wicky_42]

Yep, pretty much. I don't think there's much of a natural ecosystem left on Earth, so there's probably a bit of political pressure there to, at least ostensibly, avoid destroying other habitable worlds. If you think about it, would you let, say, Virgin or Mircosoft get first dibs on interstellar travel, find an almost magically perfect planet with abundant resources, and then nuke it to oblivion? That limit makes sense to me.

there a flaw in your logic, there isn't any intent to "nuke it to oblivion" as a simple 5-8 megaton nuke on the tree could've solved the problem in fact, seeing as we are talking about the future they could use neutron bombs that do less damage environment wise (fallout)

plants may be die however there should be basic terraforming technology which even we could produce today.

None the less, would you allow a corporation, not some united national organisation, but a profit-seeking, share-holder centric, self-invested, greedy organisation with no immediate oversight unlimited use of nuclear weaponry against the first obviously sentient alien species we encounter?!

If so 1) you trust corporations FAR too much 2) what the hell is wrong with you?! Xenophobia much?

 

[jumjalalabash]

Final Fantasy 8: Why doesn't Doc Odine just not make the time travel machine to stop Ultimecia instead of allowing her to complete her uber master plan? I first played the game when I was 9 and called BS on that.

 

[rokkolpo]

LOTR..the Giant Eagle Race could just fly someone with the ring right into Mordor, into mount doom and drop off the ring. completely bypassing hours of unnecessary bother.

yet sauron could send nazgul's.
which would fuck up the plan a bit.

 

[Prometherion]

Edit: Double post - sorryness please

 

[The Journey]

2. How can those tree huggers kill a tank unless with those animals, not even bullets can take out a tank, easy... next!

He was refering to the transports I assume, which, if/when they fell, may just fuck up the tank and it's crew.

I still think the most glaring plothole in the movie was the way everything just united against the humans, though.

You did get that the entire point of the movie was that all life on that planet was interconnected didn't you? The reason they all 'rallied' was because the Navi could use that link and... oh nevermind. If you didn't get it after the ham-fisted approach they took in the movie I guess you never will. Try to suspend your disbelief a little bit to believe that they weren't simply 'dumb animals'.

That said, I agree that the humans should have easily won that, rather than the 'heroic ending' trad stuff that we get in every movie. Happy ending my arse.

 

[BigUpsMendelson]

I'd say male nipples pretty much shoot holes in any patriarchal-oriented creation myth's plot. Also no shielding, force or otherwise, on the one area of the Death Star that'll blow the whole thing up? What gives?

 

[Prometherion]

Assassins Creed series.

Spoiler

So we remember things in third person? How so? And why is everyone trusting the race of people who created us as slaves and tried to wipe us out?