Your most pointless TV/movie/book nitpicks

[MGibster]

Everything north of Colorado is a frozen wasteland populated by Taun-tauns, cannibals, and moose.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

Everything north of Colorado is a frozen wasteland populated by Taun-tauns, cannibals, and moose.

Taun-tauns, of course, are cannibal moose.

But then I live north of Canada, so my perspective may be skewed.

 

[Olgar Shiverstone]

To be fair to both Lucas and Solo, the explanation of parsecs and the Maw was in the expanded universe since the 90s. I'm not sure if Kevin J Anderson was the one who came up with it, but it was in the Jedi Academy trilogy, and it was one if the least ridiculous things to come out of those books.

The less said about the Jedi Academy trilogy, the better.

 

[pukunui]

I was just reading an article that reminded me of a pet peeve of mine from the WW2 movie, Memphis Belle. For the record, I loved that movie so much as a kid that I named my dog after the plane. But even at 10 years old, I could see the ridiculousness of the plot's "pain point" - namely, that the Belle's bombardier insists that the squadron "go around again" because he can't see the target well enough to make sure they don't accidentally drop bombs on a nearby school.

Unfortunately, when the the bombs are finally dropped, what follows is archival footage showing bombs exploding all over the place, making it clear that there was no need to "go around again" because that school was going to get hit no matter what. (I mean, at no point in the movie are the B-17s shown flying in single file; they're all spread out in groups. Most of them weren't going to hit that factory anyway!)

If they'd just made it so that the bombardier insisted on going around again because he wanted to make sure they actually hit their target, that would've been one thing. But the writers had to up the ante and make it out like the heroic airmen were all putting their lives further at risk in a noble effort to avoid killing children -- when there was really no chance of them not doing so due to the very nature of the squadron's flying formation -- that makes it ridiculous.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

edited: read the post wrong.

By the way, when did we lose the ability to delete our posts?

 

[Ryujin]

In Canada it’s RCAF. Royal Canadian Air Force. I’m pretty sure RAF doesn’t stand for “British Air Force”.

Sure, but as a Canadian I'm just calling it the Air Force, or simply referring to the Armed Forces as a whole. I'm not going to call it the Royal Canadian Air Force, despite having been a member of the RCAC (Royal Canadian Air Cadets).

 

[pukunui]

edited: read the post wrong.

By the way, when did we lose the ability to delete our posts?

I joined EN World in 2007, and I don't recall ever being able to delete a post here in that time.

 

[Enevhar Aldarion]

I joined EN World in 2007, and I don't recall ever being able to delete a post here in that time.

I have been on enough different forums over the years, with others using the same setup as here, that I must be remembering one of those, and not here.

 

[R_J_K75]

I wanted to start a thread about your pointless and ridiculous nitpicks of TV shows, movies and books.

As for books, Media Play, or any other store that allowed people to loiter, provided the chair and serve scones so someone else can already have read the book I was coming to purchase. It was probably Mathew Lesko who read it

 

[briggart]

This is videogame related, so not sure it's on topic, but the accent of the characters in Assassin's Creed 2 is completely off. Not to mention the songs by the gondoliers in Venice. All those are from Southern Italy and would be completely out of place in 15th century Venice (and in modern day Venice too).