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Characters who keep vital information to themselves when there is no reason for it. It's clearly meant to keep the audience in suspense, but having the characters told about it would have made a huge difference!
TV's Lost was notorious for this, all the better for dragging out plotlines that could have been resolved in a handful of episodes across a full season or longer.
A variant like this happens all the time in the Arrowverse as well. "We can't tell character X this deep dark secret because it will crush him/her." And of course the truth is ultimately revealed a few episodes down the road, and the person has to deal with both the bad news and the knowledge that loved ones/teammates withheld vital information from him/her.
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May 2, 2020 - 1:43 AM
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Rameau
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Medical professionals who get all emotional over the injury or death of a patient. In real life they either block out such emotions or see you as cattle on the conveyor belt known as the modern medical field.
Yeah, they're shocking the patient to restart the heart (at least they've stopped using paddles in dramas these days...about ten years after they'd actually stopped using them, remember they'd always rub them together first). I'm not losing this one!! Doctor, he's dead. NO (bangs wall) & starts bashing the chest. A few minutes after this stuff & it's "call it, time of death". I remember a doctor calling in to a program about medical dramas & saying he's never seen anything like that happen, it's all very professional & calm. And a nurse friend once told me they're told how to give bad news (someone's died), & you give the bad news in the first sentence, I'm afraid Mr X is dead, & then you give the details, but in films & hospital TV it's the other way round, they hang it out: there's been an accident, he was hurt pretty bad, we operated, he was doing okay, we had a fish supper, oh, & he died.
...& I've seen a couple of films lately where someone's thrown/jumped through a plate glass window...& never a drop of blood!
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May 4, 2020 - 6:38 AM
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Solium
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. And a nurse friend once told me they're told how to give bad news (someone's died), & you give the bad news in the first sentence, I'm afraid Mr X is dead, & then you give the details, but in films & hospital TV it's the other way round, they hang it out: there's been an accident, he was hurt pretty bad, we operated, he was doing okay, we had a fish supper, oh, & he died.
LMAO! For real!
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War films that use real war footage. When I see a planes fiery crash I know I'm witnessing a real pilots horrible death. It takes me completely out of the film.
Agreed. It reminds me of an old Bloom Country strip where the gang turns on the tv and sees an explosion and they all wonder whether what they are watching is fictitious or if it is live news coverage, and the end panel has one of the characters say something like "can someone please tell me if I can enjoy this?"
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Just saw this in Altered States. Two love birds flirt by talking science to one another. Yeah, I don't think that's how it goes down.
But Eddie and Emily ARE scientists! What else would they talk about? 
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