Random Talk

[benji]

So many modern TV and films don't have plots, they have incredibly improbable series of coincidences that just happen to always lead to the next improbable coincidence. The characters can't even react to or have thoughts about them because it's irrelevant to what will happen next.

I think the most perfect example is Star Trek Discovery season 2 where the end of the season forgets the setup of the entire season and provides an "explanation" that would be literally impossible for what was depicted at the start of the season except they somehow forgot what this was. Then in the middle of the finale they forget their own explanation and none of the characters realize they no longer have to do something but they go through with doing it anyway. They have to do it because the writers can only think of one way to "solve" their "explanation" that never needed to exist. Almost all of NuTrek is written like this back to the Abrams films.

And as Uncle noted the "big reveals" that are always supposed to explain what were a series of coincidences only draw your attention to it and make everyone involved look like idiots. The number of villain plots that involve them setting up an endless series of coincidences that would lead nowhere if someone acts differently just once instead of just shooting somebody is incredible. Somehow people think this is "smart" when it's the opposite.