PainInTheAssInternet said:
I'll also copy-paste my defining moment of the show thus far from another thread about plot holes.
PainInTheAssInternet said:
I just watched the pilot for a show called The Strain.
The protagonist, who works for the CDC (remember this. It's important. The main character works for the Centre for Disease Control) is dealing with an outbreak that's revealed to be connected to a parasitic worm. While investigating a plane that serves as ground zero for this parasite, he gathers some of these worms and puts them in a container. He was wearing a full hazmat suit as per SOP.
When they lose a vital target, his coworker asks what else they have. At which point he produces the container with the worms from his plainclothes jacket.
Holy. Shit. How much of an idiot is this guy? Why and how did he not submit them for testing? How does he still have his job if he treats dangerous samples like this? These parasites had just killed over 200 people. Isn't it almost exactly like just casually walking around with a canister of the ebola virus in your jacket? And since he gathered them in his hazmat suit, that would mean he went through quarantine and decontamination and then picked up the container on the other side and put it in his jacket.
That container doesn't look too advanced either. It was just a clear box with a basic lid.
Thats the part that bothers them? Not the fact that they seem to think worms are responsible despite the fact that they know that something forced open the cargo bay door, that they are traces all over the entire plane including the ceiling, that they know something slit open gashes in the throats?
Also the coffin scene. Okay 9' carved coffin filled with earth. And yet like 2 guys move it from standing to laying position. It latches from the inside, why didn't the earth fall out when it was standing? Also why was no one is hazmat suite when they opened it? The airport manager guy wasn't even wearing gloves.
And earlier, the 2 suite up and go into the plane and at one point both stop communicating with the people outside. WHy? They are already in some jurisdictional fight with other departments. Stopping communicating is just going to get other departments trying to enter the plane. ANd why does the one go into the cockpit when they are not supposed to? Hell why do they split up at all? Why don't they call for backup when they find that the cargo bay was forced from the inside? Thats a pretty strong indicator of a dangerous PHYSICAL threat that could still be on the plane.
Why does the old guy tell them to destroy the bodies with so little explanation? He's seen the disease, he should start by very clearly stating all the symptoms so they take him seriously.
Why does that father have a framed photo of his daughter at the airport? SHouldn't he have been waiting there the whole time to pick her up when she landed and stayed while no one would tell him whats going on? So he what brought it when he thought everything was still fine? And how did dead girl get home? She knows the route to walk from the airport or morgue she was at?
How'd the vampire know specifically which van to load the coffin in?
And thats just the things I remember wrong after watching days ago.
