Sometimes My Brain is Annoying...

[borgmama1of5]

I can’t say exactly when it happened, but over the last few years my brain has made it nearly impossible to just sit back and enjoy a movie or story.

Because even as I’m trying to enjoy the epic space battle or badass fight between the hero and the bad guy, a little voice in my head is going:

“Ten minutes ago they were complaining about how hard

Comments

Hah.

[sandymg]

It's funny. I do that too. But ONLY when the story isn't great. If the story is compelling enough then I hand wave away everything.

Re: Hah.

[borgmama1of5]

What bothers me is that I used to be able to overlook inconsistencies if I was wrapped up in the story. But now watching movies I used to love I see the holes.

[cuddyclothes]

We are the same person!!!

Supernatural does that ALL THE TIME. Suddenly morning is night, or in one scene the guys are in suits and the next, presumably moments or an hour later, they're in their standard garb. Plus, their forearms are never scarred!

[borgmama1of5]

Yes, without specifying I did have SPN--both episodes and fanfic--in mind...

[meus_venator]

I'm doing that more and more, especially if I watch a movie a second time, it's like the little writer in my brain won't shut up. And I keep thinking of ways they could have easily fixed the plot holes.

And it took me years to realize that the Impala should be the most noticeable car in all these small towns, and one of the loudest, but no I went with the story, but once the writing went downhill that's all I think about is all the plot holes and how easy they would be to fix.

[fanspired]

That's the worst of the later bad writing. It makes you more sensitive to the little things in the early episodes that you never noticed before because you were so involved in the story :(

[borgmama1of5]

And I think for me that sensitivity now carries over into non-SPN things I watch :(

[borgmama1of5]

I have always wondered about their Fed suits--around season 5 they got very well fitted and are always beautifully pressed...How do they manage that???

[hezio2]

my husband and i do that all the time. I feel like it's lazy writing, directing or editing. like maybe the story was fine but because of time they had to hack out a scene and now it's night instead of day.
We've become such consumers because there is so much product that we don't want to accept garbage.

[borgmama1of5]

maybe the story was fine but because of time they had to hack out a scene and now it's night instead of day.

That could be true sometimes...but you'd think the editors would notice the problem :/

[metallidean_grl]

So, now I wonder if something is wrong with me because most of the time I really don't think those questions or wonder about holes and such. There are times that I question things, but its never a big thing in my mind, I just more or less go with the flow

[amberdreams]

You aren't alone - I'm pretty good at just absorbing things, my main exception is with SPN. I'm still fine with the early seasons, but once we get to (probably) season 8 onwards, my brain won't shut up because of all the inconsistencies and contradictions, and how the bad writing (or maybe just lazy writing) throws me out of the story.

[metallidean_grl]

Oh thank you. :) It is nice to know I'm not the only one out there that doesn't come up with a million different questions while watching a show.

I agree with you about SPN. It is worse in the later years about all the inconsistencies and Canon changes, which always makes me go "HUH???" It does throw me out of the story and I become disinterested really in anything I'm watching. I try real hard, because I love this show so much, but sometimes I just can't help it.

[amberdreams]

*Nods hard* so much this.