Ruin Explorer
Legend
These are mostly general whinges not nitpicks, my friend. This is more about nitpicks - i.e. specific little things that don't make sense and are just petty to be mad about. Like, the Finn & Rose point - that's a nitpick, sure. Arguing about why they didn't promote the guy - that's not a nitpick, that's just arguing with the writing, and that's a much broader subject. There's barely a show on TV where people aren't saying "BUT HE SHOULDN'T HAVE DONE THAT!" or "SHE WOULD NEVER!!!" - that's only a nitpick if they clearly forgot an established character trait or the like (one show, I forget which, established one character was an alcoholic and then forgot it like six episodes later - that's a nitpick). And "looking at the sun" isn't even a nitpick or conventional whinge, it's an intentionally obtuse wilful misinterpretation of the plot, and those can be fun, but "Let's misinterpret the plot of movies on purpose!" is a whole other thread (which may be worth starting!).
I've got another nitpick example - Netflix decided a few years ago that they could cheaply achieve high views on shows in both the UK and US by making Harlen Coben thrillers into TV shows, but setting them in the UK and thus getting a cheap supply of mid through high-end actors and much cheaper location shooting (they've attempted other locations in Europe with somewhat less success). We've seen several shows like this - but one really stuck out for me, and I think it was The Stranger (they all sort of blur together).
Specifically, a female character has compromising photographs taken of her (I think selfies even), and the entire plot requires that these be possible to use blackmail her and her relatives with in a very specific way, i.e. they'll be put on the internet, on various sites which will refuse to take them down, and this will cause her problems in future because when people look her up for jobs etc. they'll see these, and that this problem will follow her around forever.
Now in the US, at the time (several years ago), and presumably when the book was written, this would have worked - it may still do, though I think it's now largely illegal, thankfully. But in the UK and EU, even years before the show was filmed this would have been a non-issue. This wasn't a famous person, note, but rather a private individual - there were already well-established and not very costly methods to get Google, Bing and others to simply exclude that stuff on a data protection/privacy law basis or to get them taken down on copyright grounds (if selfies or similar). No-one searching her name would have found this material unless it was in a very small window, and particularly the issue wouldn't have followed her around, because Google/Bing would have been legally required to block those results (and you can do this on much flimsier grounds) and their automation would likely have blocked sites which attempted to re-post the material.
You can see with more recent Harlen Coben stuff set in the UK that they've somewhat improved on this - like, someone gets pepper sprayed (a serious crime in the UK - it's in the same category as firearms, weapon-wise, and totally illegal), and the police officer who finds out says "That's a serious offence!" (and it is), but then he acts utterly lackadaisically about it, like this was the US and it was just a thing people might do, like a low-level scuffle, not a serious crime involving an illegal weapon, and as fun as it is to think cops are lazy, I don't buy that a senior detective in the UK is going to overlook that, because it could cause him professional consequences if he did - he'd have sent people to arrest the person who was accused of doing it. So they're still not quite there.
