Easily solved Plotholes that annoy the hell out of you

[gandhi the peacemake]

Secondly video-game elements like respawns and extra lives are rarely considered cannon to the story.

The Bioshock games, and Infinite in particular, are among those rarities. In Infinite's case, the death/respawning element is heavily implied to be completely canon. One of the benefits of the many universes conceit is that it allows for this type of canon. The trouble is that it also allows EVERY OTHER CANON. This is literally a case of everything that can happen will happen. It makes for interesting stories, but unfortunately it also removes all sense of consequence.

That being said, I feel it's meant more as meta commentary on gameplay and the gaming community than anything else.

 

[Lilani]

I mentioned this in another thread of mine, but there's a fun episode of Doctor Who I just can't enjoy with all my heart because there's a huge, glaring plothole at the end. Long story short, nearly every human on earth has been given a heart attack by electromagnetic pulses given off by little cube-shaped machines. The Doctor manages to send out another pulse which restarts people's hearts and saves the world. HOWEVER, never at one point does the Doctor or anyone else address the fact that people's hearts were stopped for several minutes before the Doctor managed to start them again.

Never once do they mention how after 3-4 minutes without a pulse a person becomes brain dead, never once do they mention any amount of time that can't pass before they're too late. No, they have a good long monologue between two characters before people are brought back to life, with no mention of brain damage in sight.

This could have easily been fixed with a quick mention about brain damage while the Doctor is explaining his plan to send out another pulse, and he could have spouted some technobabble to explain how the pulses also saved people's brains. But nooooo, they just ignore it, and I'm feeling really insulted as a viewer. Like SERIOUSLY Doctor Who writers? Do NONE of you really know anything about what happens when the heart stops beating? NOBODY caught that one before the script was approved, or when the actors did their first readthroughs?

 

[Neonsilver]

Armageddon

Why did they teach a drilling company how to be astronauts and not instead teach astronauts how to use the drill. I know it defeats the purpose of the ENTIRE movie but it just seems more logical.

You didn't actually watch the movie did you? That was the original plan, but they needed the drilling crew to help them understand the machine because it was a custom design that Bruce Willis' character invented. And said character found out about it and basically said "hell no; I wanna go to space!" In effect, the earth was left as the mercy of a handful of drunken oil-rig operators instead of trained astronauts because Bruce Willis' character had a massive ego and refused to help unless he got to go.

The drilling crew went into space because it was, at least according to the movie, easier to teach the drillers how to survive in space long enough to drill the hole, instead of teaching the astronauts how to drill. They more or less had to rebuild the custom machine because the nasa guys didn't really understand it enough. That the astronauts didn't understand how to drill was another plotpoint when the captain wanted to blow up the bomb earlier because the drilling went to slow.

If they wouldn't have been able to teach the astronauts properly or not is debatable and it's possible that it was just Willis characters subjective opinion that it would have been to hard to do the teaching.