The answer to 90% of "plotholes" is that fiction is about drama, theme, and emotion, not about watching a perfectly logical character do the most optimal thing in any given situation, or whether or not the made up lore is 100% consistent and scientifically accurate.
Just really sick of this idea that media criticism is about figuring out a more effective thing the character could have done so you can prove you& #39;re objectively smarter than the dumb author, who was more concerned with silly things like character development and plot structure.
Wow this blew up. Just want to clarify that I& #39;m not saying plotholes can never be a problem, but just that if you& #39;re always looking for them and they& #39;re at the center of your criticisms, you& #39;re kinda not seeing the forest for the trees. Fiction isn& #39;t a logic puzzle to be solved.
Sure bad writing can break your suspension of disbelief, but even when a plothole is a problem and not just a minor nitpick it& #39;s still the least interesting part of a story to talk about imo, and it& #39;s frustrating how often people bring them up as a gotcha for why something is bad
There are so many interesting conversations to be had about fiction, and I just hate that so much of it is dominated by these extremely surface level observations that only serve to make people feel smarter for pointing them out.