Unfortunately, this happens a lot in sci-fi movies in shows, for some reason writers always seem to forget that space is three dimensional and things can and do move in more than just one plane in space. The one I see a lot is the mentioning of some obstacle that's too wide to go around forgetting that that they're not on land or on water and they can go above or below the obstacle, or some combination of above, below, and around.
They almost got this right in Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan during the blind dogfight in the Mutara Nebula. Spock even comments on Khan's tactics, saying, "He is intelligent, but not experienced. His pattern indicates two-dimensional thinking," at which point Kirk orders Enterprise to maneuver straight down (from their perspective, that is), taking a position below Reliant. And then, purely for dramatic effect, they screw it up and have Enterprise take a position behind, and at the same attitude as, Reliant. :facepalm
Yep, and they could improve this with one simple dialogue alteration by saying the obstacle occupies too much space to go around rather than saying it's too wide.
Happened in Spectre, too. And it was a blind intersection, in a tunnel. How would the driver have any idea how to time the approach?
Or like in Furious 7 where Dom chases Shaw across the city and ends up confronting him in a tunnel - vehicle against vehicle. Suddenly Mr. Nobody (Kurt Russell) and his Ops Team crash the party and Shaw escapes. How did Mr. Nobody and his Ops Team set up there in advance (with guys repelling down)?
CGI blood has a long way to go. It can look like a red smoke puff.
I whole heartedly agree.
I didn't know it had a name until now, but regardless of "agendas", a script that fails the test is simply not well written.
I don't have a problem with that as long as they're able to stay true to the character. For example, Idris Elba was rumored semi-recently to be on a list of actors to replace Daniel Craig as James Bond when the time comes, and some people lost their minds simply because Elba isn't Caucasian. Yes, James Bond has traditionally been Caucasian, but does that really matter? I'd be more concerned if they cast a Caucasian actor, but decided to make him, say, a bumbling Inspector Clouseau type.
I agree with your point, but forming an opinion of any long-running television series based on watching a single episode is like thinking you know what Star Wars is all about because you watched 30 seconds of a lightsaber duel. The female characters on The Big Bang Theory do indeed have their own identities, but the episode you watched wasn't a good example of that.
