Your most pointless TV/movie/book nitpicks

[Paul Farquhar]

Nitt picking Red Eye? It didn’t have anyone who objected to being called Shirley.

 

[Umbran]

I literally said out loud "Did the Lib Dems form this government?!" because honestly it's the only explanation (I am mostly joking ...

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[jian]

I mean, it's not the least plausible plot of a thriller series set on a long-distance international flight I've watched recently (that's still the inferior Red Eye - I love Richard Armitage but he needs to get a better agent!). At least this one, when you accept a number of somewhat implausible premises, the plot flows logically. The main two being:

1) In a clearly post-Line of Duty age, the "OCG", i.e. "Organised Criminal Gang" in British police-speak is a mighty and terrifying international force capable of agile-ly striking at individuals and their families in a way the worst, most-state-backed and well-funded terrorists and spies wish they could. This, to be clear, is an utter nonsense. There are specific countries which organised crime kills huge numbers of people and has its hooks deeply into the state (often despite hard work from the governments), but there's a reason nothing like this has ever happened.

Yes, the OCG as super-villain thing is just a terrible trope and needs to die in a fire. No UK-based OCG could pull off anything on that scale. It's all Krays-based nostalgia. This is all your fault, Jed Mercurio.

(I'm reminded of a throwaway line from the Origin Story podcast that the late 60s was when criminals in the UK switched to drug dealing due to new laws heavily influenced by the US (prior to that we'd actually been very humane about drug use and harm minimisation in a way that seems unthinkable now), and that prior to this the main income stream for UK criminal gangs was armed robberies. Which seems, again, unthinkable now.)

Just watched the first episode of Blue-Eyed Samurai and it's so full of nonsense and nitpicks that I can't continue. Another sign that we're in the worst timeline is that this dreck is on Netflix and getting a second series, rather than having a faithful adaptation of the Usagi Yojimbo stories, now on episode 200 or so.

(BTW I sort of like the teen Usagi science fantasy series but, you know, it's not Usagi in any way.)