The details around the assassination of Archduke Ferdinand really jump the shark. Must've been a drug-fueled writing session on that one
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When that one aired I assumed they were going to genre-shift into dark comedy or slapstick, but they... really, really didn't.
You haven't seen Blackadder? I thought the whole plot was a set up to the series.
one drunk dude with a pistol changing the course of the whole world?
Don't ignore the whole other stuff with the failed bombing etc.
From wikipedia:
At 10:10 am,[75] Franz Ferdinand's car approached and Čabrinović threw his bomb. The bomb bounced off the folded back convertible cover into the street.[76] The bomb's timed detonator caused it to explode under the next car, putting that car out of action, leaving a 1-foot-diameter (0.30 m), 6.5-inch-deep (170 mm) crater,[75] and wounding 16–20 people.[77]
Čabrinović swallowed his cyanide pill and jumped into the Miljacka river. Čabrinović's suicide attempt failed, as the old cyanide only induced vomiting, and the Miljacka was only 13 cm deep due to the hot, dry summer.[78] Police dragged Čabrinović out of the river, and he was severely beaten by the crowd before being taken into custody.
Just the mental image of him chucking himself into a river after the failed bombing and then also failing his suicide on two fronts...
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That DB Cooper storyline was never resolved.
Lots of those. Characters just falling out of the narrative left and right.
Those aren’t plot holes. They’re upper story windows conveniently located in Russia.
Are we supposed to believe the largest most dominant military force in the world, Kublai Kahn's Mongol fleet was defeated by some inclement weather... TWICE?? Lazy writing.
Inclement weather, just FYI. Although, your spelling also makes a lot of sense in the current times...
Not bashing your point though, that's a good one.
My turn to learn a new fact today. Wild that I've never realised it was spelt that way.
Why would they just confirm all the fan theories about the world elite running a massive illegal money laundering ring spanning the globe, and follow it up by proving that the same elite are trafficking children for sex acts if they didn't plan to go anywhere with that storyline?
It’s like the way they left Deadwood. They set it up for a righteous proper class war and then suddenly the series was cancelled.
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The whole wrapping up world war 2 using "the gadget" just reeks of writers struggling to wrap up after writing themselves into a corner.
The end of WW2 was a complex political issue, and the atomic bombs were not the 'press here, end war' that most of us believe.
The Japanese we're holding out hope (stupidly) that the Soviet Union would negotiate a conditional surrender with the united States as the end of the imperial system was unacceptable to them. The US had floated that if there was an unconditional surrender, that the imperial system would stay intact, but wanted it to seem like a US condition, not a Japanese one, because that would be a conditional surrender.
The Soviets always intended to invade, but were held by a nonaggression pact they made with the Japanese. The US pressured the Soviets very hard to violate this and invade Manchuria.
There was literally a Japanese war cabinet convened already when news of Nagasaki reached them. We have actual primary source for their reactions. They did not care.
Only once the second bomb dropped and Manchuria was invaded did some of the cabinet manage to convince the emporer to intervene which was extremely rare.
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A few Prime Ministers have been peculiar plotholes. Harold Holt just disappeared. Whitlam got taken out by a madman influenced by the yanks and nominally working for the Queen. Sometimes it seems the writers just get bored of the storyline and drop stuff.
Lol - found my fellow Aussie!
I don't know about this series, but I play a game with the same name and absolutely hate it. It's hugely pay to win with permadeath and the grind has nowhere near the payoff for the amount of effort you put in.
Just to emphasise:
from 1990 and before
Folks can't read past the headline. Truly this site has arrived.
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Probably the stars that are older than the universe.
IIRC, they're too big to have formed in one of the ways we know and then continuously lost matter at the the rate they should have.
So one or more of the assumptions about how they could have formed or how they lost matter over time is wrong, right?
Nope. Older than the universe. Can't weasel your way out of this one science boy
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Nobody has figured out who the Zodiac killer is yet? Come on, people!
What did drugs ever do to start a war???
Well, the British were able to use drugs to start a war on China once. All in the name of cheap tea.
Some would say the fentanyl problem right now is payback for the opium thing
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The universe is not locally real*.
*Locality and reality are defined in specific ways within quantum physics, and "not locally real" doesn't necessarily mean 'illusory' as you might expect. Look into it, it's some crazy shit.
If most people are good why doesn't the world get better without violence?
There’s a saying in German that my grandmother sometimes used, it roughly translates to “The person is good but the people are bad” (Der Mensch ist gut, aber die Leut sind schlecht).
I like that.
Another quote that comes to mind is this, from the movie Men in Black (1997):
A person is smart; people are dumb, panicky, dangerous animals and you know it.
– Tommy Lee Jones, as Agent K
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duck billed platypus
The low entropy of the past
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