Plot hole: Both Vesper and James are needed alive if Le Chiffre is to steal the money. But the trap on the road could have easily killed at least one of them (Bond isn't looking too good afterwards), or even both.
Spiny Norman
17th May 2025
Casino Royale (2006)
17th May 2025
Casino Royale (2006)
Plot hole: During the last half of the movie, it's a matter of discussion if it was Vesper or Mathis who informed on Le Chiffre about his "tell" (give-away when he was bluffing). But it could just as easily have been a trick that the latter had planned all along - it didn't have to be either of the other two. After all, we're talking world-class poker players; why would it ever have been that easy to see through Le Chiffre's game?
29th Sep 2022
The Sandman (2022)
Plot hole: During Dream's imprisonment, Roderick Burgess eventually dies right in front of him. That means that at that moment, Death is there to take him away. Why doesn't Death - by far the most responsible and the most sympathetic of his family - see Dream, and let him out? It's completely against the order of all things that he is locked up there, so it's not as if Death can't interfere.
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Suggested correction: This is indeed a plot hole for the series. The only explanations are speculation. For instance, Neil Gaiman, talking about the comics, suggested that Death frequently visited the place as various people and animals died. According to him, she assumed that Dream would have asked for help if he wanted it. Another possibility is that the magic was designed to trap Death and somehow became effective in hiding Dream from her. But as you say, for the show, it is a plot hole.
Is this strictly speaking even a correction then? It depends, I suppose, if explanations are allowed for which no evidence is ever seen or heard. I myself don't hold with "what ifs," because they always feel extremely "made up afterwards" to me (although in this case, the post above is very straightforward about it); but it's not my website. Secondly, if Death wasn't able to see Dream (let alone free him), or he her, then wouldn't at least the viewers and the deceased still have seen her?
Not a correction; just an expansion of the idea and agreement that, for the series, this is a plot hole (and for the comic book too, without outside explanation).
As a side note, I think for the graphic novel it might have been just possible to pass it off as subjective camera if we insert the idea that the Endless can't see each other at all due to the incantations (or whatever). But the adaptation has different camera angles, contradicting any attempt to explain it retroactively that way. Of course, it's all "fridge logic" anyway.
29th Sep 2022
The Sandman (2022)
Plot hole: The powerful 'amulet of protection' makes the bullets strike the shooters instead of John. Clearly it works not just against magic and other ethereal threats, but also against physical attacks. So why does he almost get knocked over by a car? True, he isn't seriously injured, but he was thrown to the ground. The amulet should have pulverised that car or bounced it at least two blocks away.
2nd Mar 2021
The Silver Chalice (1954)
Plot hole: Helena is ordered to fly or be thrown off the tower, bearing the brunt for Simon's failure. But the flying apparatus is still up there, and so is her servant who was going to secretly operate it so that Simon could pretend to fly around. All she needs is right there in front of her. She's supposed to be cunning and resourceful, and she could have saved her life simply by following the original plan.
24th Jul 2018
Tales of the Unexpected (1979)
Royal Jelly - S2-E1
Plot hole: It's all very well for Albert to humm "bzz-bzz" to indicate that he has been eating too much Royal Jelly and is no longer entirely human. But "bzz" is just the noise of bees flying, it's not a sound that they deliberately produce. It makes no sense to SAY "bzz." Suppose he was turning into a horse instead, then he might say "Whinny!", but he wouldn't say "Clip clop clip clop."
10th Jul 2018
Plebs (2013)
The Marathon - S4-E3
Plot hole: Jason cheated in three different ways in order to beat Aurelius in The Marathon, and admitted it. So the bet that they made between them is null and void. But the last shot shows them living up to the terms, which includes Aurelius starting to eat his own shit (literally), so revolted that he's trembling. Apparently the writers really really wanted to include coprophagy. But who would eat faeces for a bet, if you can simply avoid it by reminding your opponent that he cheated? Or even better, many would say that cheating means losing automatically, so he's the one who should be eating his own shit.
3rd Nov 2017
Doctor Who (1963)
The Creature from the Pit - S17-E3
Plot hole: In part 2 it's brought up in conversation several times that all metal is rare on that planet. Handy exposition for the viewers, but it's in fact a really odd thing for the characters to say. The inhabitants aren't giving a tour of their planet (certainly not deliberately at any rate), so why would they state facts that have been well known to them all of their lives? It's a bit like meeting strangers and informing them that two thirds of the Earth are covered by oceans.