I recently came across a hilarious Reddit thread titled, “Assume all of world history is a movie. What are the biggest plotholes?” I’m including here some of my favorite responses. You can visit visit the original thread for more. Oh, and apologies for the language…
At the Beginning, there were Dinosaurs
Then came Religion…
…And the Middle Ages
Things progressed fast, after that. Too fast.
Technology brought along War…
…And the Titanic
Today, we face new challenges, including Terrorism…
…North Korea…
…and Inequality.
So how will it all end?
If you can think of any other glaring plotholes, I’d love to hear from you!
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These are hilarious. Love David’s comment.
Hear, hear 🙂
Loved it. Really great. I particularly enjoyed the way the later ones got like John Scalzi’s Redshirts and we’re all worrying whether we were cancelled!
Lol – absolutely! Very Truman show all that 🙂
Yeh, very. 😉
I did do a little mental happy dance reading this. One pothole, or maybe just a disaster, was the burning of the Alexandrian library. What do you think?
A tragedy as great as the fall of Bagdad to the Mongols.
These are fabulous, Nicholas. Had me laughing from the start. The “And Inequality” plot hole shows up quite a bit in my books. I wish it was a plot hole! 🙂
Yes, some were rather poignant 🙂
Reminds me of a tweet I saw this week. “Humanity is in its last season and the writers have lost their minds.”
The end is nigh? 😀
Feels like it some days.
Verily. 🙂
This falls into the category of life being stranger than fiction. The unsinkable ship sinks.
This was funny to read, and reveals how crazy the world really is. Thanks for sharing.
It’s just our books that must make sense 🙂
Thanks that really cheered me up, never thought of history like that before.
That’s why I love Reddit 🙂
History is so much fun. I just love plot holes. Wish my editor did.
Lol – you now have a great response if he complains! “Hey, if it’s good enough for life, it’s good enough for me” 😀
We must be alone in the universe because …. um, reasons.
Lol – sounds convincing 😀
Now we can see where TV gets all it’s script ideas from.
Hugs
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