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Knights getting stabbed with swords through plate armor.
We're re-watching GoT and were at the Brienne/Jaime fight on the bridge, and I was just yelling at the screen. He's in rags and she's in plate, both wielding swords, he doesn't have a snowballs' chance in hell if she protects her head and just tackles him. That's what the fucking armor is for! Coincidentally that also would be way more likely to achieve her goal to subdue but not hurt him.
In the opening sequence of Final Fantasy XII, two separate characters get stabbed through the "stylish" gaps in their armor... and somehow this doesn't prompt anyone else to reconsider their armor choices.
IIRC, neither was wearing armor in the book, but it's been a while so I may be wrong.
And the book at least talks about aiming for the gaps in the armor.
Movies that need to exposition dump to tell the audience what's going on. This isn't radio. If you need to explain everything to me so I can understand what's going on in the plot, it's bad story telling. Show, don't tell.
Writers just toss in some jarringly unrealistic dialogue that people never say IRL to establish characters are siblings.
I heard Outlander is great, but I can't get past the second episode because the narration pissed me off.
Okay, I get it, it's based off a novel, but if you're inserting a monologue to explain what just happened, or foreshadowing what is about to happen, you can just fuck off.
"Little did I know, this blunder would cost me everything" fuck off
Watch Mad Max Fury Road "theatrical" release then watch the original or director's cut. I watched the original in theaters the day the movie came out and loved it! But I rewatched it on streaming and thought I was going crazy with the Tom Hardy narration they added in the begin and end. I was like, was that added between the time I watched in theater and now? Looked it up and the production company forced them to add the narration a couple weeks into the release. Apparently an executive couldn't follow the story without Max telling him. Shows that the people in charge don't always know what's best.
The what the what now? Never even heard of this and I’ve watched Fury Road a lot.
So there are three versions. Original, directors cut, and theatrical (has the narrations)
When the protagonist isn't actually doing anything or making any decisions, but mostly reacting to events that happen.
So it goes.
Normalization of the protagonist using violence before any attempt of diplomacy, without the narrative condemning this action
People getting shot with a shitty handgun and they're dead as soon as they hit the ground. Even if its a fatal shot, chances are quite high you're going to die minutes or hours or days later if you make it to a hospital.
People hiding behind cars from bullets. Bullets being shot at the car and somehow not hitting them. Only the engine block could stop most bullets.
Die off-screen? Definitely alive and will show up the next act.
The problem with this one is that, as a reader/watcher/whatever, it affects your experience even when it doesn't happen. I was so convinced that Dumbledore was alive at the end of book six. Fell off a balcony? Point of view character gets dragged to the infirmary so we can't see what happens after that? There's a phoenix, a bird associated with healing and rebirth, conspicuously singing? That guy is pulling a Gandalf in the next book for sure.
So I spent the whole next book waiting for the dramatic reveal that never came...
The bad guy that is omniscient and omnipresent. Everywhere you go, oops! There's the bad guy and he totally kicks your ass and ruins your plans.
We call it Neganing. He's the reason I eventually stopped watching the Walking Dead.
Or like Sylar (from Heroes), where the writers find a baddie they just love too much to kill so the whole show becomes about them.
Is that not how chloroform works?
According to Quora it takes 5 minutes, with a willing participant.
Anaesthesia that's injected right before an operation can knock you out in about 30 seconds (and until then you could still struggle, technically speaking), but that's a thick-ass tube of drugs they're pumping inside of you. Some vapours from a rag is going to do jack shit.
The worst is when a show or movie establishes that X can't be done, because Y. Then in a later scene X is done without addressing anything about Y. It's actually pretty common, especially when run time needs to be padded with a side quest.
When they are kissing right after waking up with that morning breath.
Bullshit happy endings.