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  • noun Plural form of plothole.

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  • This ultimately involves a riverboat constructed by Samuel Clemens and an airship constructed by zeppelin designer Ludwig Dürr (and I have no idea where they got the resources to build these) along with a fair amount of leaps in logic and gaping plotholes.

    21 « April « 2010 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy 2010

  • I have to keep reminding myself that it doesn't matter it's not perfect now, that it's got plotholes and wobbly bits.

    Update karenmiller 2009

  • This ultimately involves a riverboat constructed by Samuel Clemens and an airship constructed by zeppelin designer Ludwig Dürr (and I have no idea where they got the resources to build these) along with a fair amount of leaps in logic and gaping plotholes.

    Television Review: Riverworld 2010

  • Look, it wouldn't be 24 without a half-dozen plotholes that you could drive an Oprah through, but the fact that there's a stem cell treatment (even if it is experimental) for those exposed brand new and heretofore unseen bioweapon is a bit much.

    Archive 2009-05-17 Tyler 2009

  • Look, it wouldn't be 24 without a half-dozen plotholes that you could drive an Oprah through, but the fact that there's a stem cell treatment (even if it is experimental) for those exposed brand new and heretofore unseen bioweapon is a bit much.

    24: Garofalo lives to annoy another day Tyler 2009

  • This ultimately involves a riverboat constructed by Samuel Clemens and an airship constructed by zeppelin designer Ludwig Dürr (and I have no idea where they got the resources to build these) along with a fair amount of leaps in logic and gaping plotholes.

    April « 2010 « Axiom's Edge Science Fiction and Fantasy 2010

  • The hardest part about writing to me really seems fixing your own plotholes.

    btw I FINISHED THE ENDING nathreee 2010

  • They have so much chemistry together that you can forgive any plotholes and just relax and enjoy the tender love in bloom story they present.

    Jackie K. Cooper: Leap Into Leap Year 2010

  • The best prediction I've seen vis a vis Torchwood: USA has been that RTD will write thirteen episode that already have mild-to-significant plotholes in them, and then Fox will air all thirteen of them out of order while moving the show through three different timeslots, making it completely impossibe for any but the most dedicated of viewers to follow it.

    my theory on TORCHWOOD AMERICA hradzka 2010

  • This one was a 2002 post-apocalyptic man v. dragon film, thick with plotholes, thin on common sense.

    Scrap the Remakes and Film These Books Instead | Missions Unknown 2010

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