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The Walking Dead. It's beyond me why people like this show, insofar as it is just like the primary antagonists of the series: it is slow, it is mindless, it stinks and it just won't die. The reason why I mention it now is because at the end of the first season (the only one I got all the way through), the CDC scientists "explain" the zombies as some sort of bacterium or virus that reanimates the dead by attaching to the cerebellum and cerebral cortex, thus "bringing back" the person. However, the zombies don't receive proper nutrients or oxygen to allow for any of the thousands of energy exchanges needed to keep muscles functioning or organs running. Without that, the zombies should have rotted so much and so quickly in the open air that, after a few rains, none would be left except those created when survivors were too stupid to burn their dead or kill and burn infected members. And that's not a lot of zombies, anyway.
Our zombies are different, Richard Matheson did the first science->zombie/vampire thing I tihnk, and nobody's gotten particular original since then. At least not in a useful fashion. Writer's are lazy and have low opinions of their audience's intellect, admittedly the latter is often justified.
"I'm not sure if my reanimated corpses are plausible enough for the audience, better slap some smart sounding bullshit on my magic."
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Time Travel Movies. There are dozens movies in which people travel back in time and meet people from the past who (a) speak perfect modern English, (b) have all their teeth, (c) have no hideous scarring from smallpox or other skin diseases, (d) never lost eyes, arms or legs in battle, (e) stand as tall as modern people and appear to be well-fed, (f) don't stink to high heaven and (g) more often than not exhibit character traits of the modern age.
That seems more like a complaint about sloppy period settings than time travel. The height, tooth and limb thing is forgivable, it might not be too hard to cast extras who are on the short side but missing limbs and teeth might be a bit harder. But yeah, written or video they tend to do a bad job indicating just how horrible it was to live in medieval or neolithic cultures. Game of Thrones, and the Tudors for that matter, did a fairly decent job as these things go.
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Idiot Exposition. Hollywood movies often have way more explanation than necessary, so that stupid people can enjoy movies that are already really stupid. Sadly, many times this exposition is at times when people wouldn't even bother saying a word. Case in point: Mission Impossible with Tom Cruise (I'm sad to have to admit to having seen it). He has some stupid gum that is plastic explosive and the catchphrase when it was explained was "red light, green light". So when he's hanging from a helicopter in a tunnel or something and has 2 seconds to save the world he repeats the phrase. Thanks, dipshit. The people with brains who haven't already left the theatre in disgust didn't need the refresher on something they saw just a half hour before. The others should just be euthanized anyway. A variant of this is the drawn-out death exposition, where someone explains everything before dying. I am particularly happy that Breaking Bad intentionally has people shot in mid-sentence.
I too watched the entirety of MI, I was a big fan of the original show in reruns as a kid so I tried MI1 but didn't make the mistake of doing it again for the reruns. Exposition gets done sloppy all the time. The intro crawler or narration is usually fine, ditto the ignorant person (farm boy with sword etc) who has to asks questions for us, but the bits where people stop to explain something to someone who definitely should know gets irritating as all hell. Death exposition is annoying but mostly because deaths in TV/movies are always instantaneous for anyone who isn't a major character and major characters never die quick. Though there was a film with Pitt and Clooney in it a few years back that reversed that pretty well.
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