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Shito! Kyofu no kokushiken - S1-E11

Stupidity: Hyoga hears the faint noise of the bells, but a moment later can't hear Seiya scream in the valley as he falls.

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Shito! Kyofu no kokushiken - S1-E11

Stupidity: The 'repairing the cloth' scene does not make any sense as presented. Shiryu cuts his wrists and just pours blood on the armors spilling it before he reaches them (one just assumes that Mu told him off-screen that he needed to bleed all over the armors and not collect it, would have been pretty awkward if he died hemorrhaging before Mu could fetch a bowl), and he keeps saying that he just needs to repair Seiya's armor. Since Mu says that he needs half of Shiryu's blood to repair BOTH armors and he'll die if he loses a third, Shiryu could repair Seiya's armor and go fight armorless - which he always does anyway, he's arguably stronger without it - giving just 1/4 of his blood, instead of dying leaving Seiya on his own. No need to expect a character from a 'shonen' to act logically, but simply a throwaway line saying that he needed to repair his own armor out of duty to his stars or something similar, would have been enough.

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Ayaushi shiryu! Cloth no hakaba - S1-E10

Stupidity: Saori blushes when Seiya opens the door shirtless...but she's seen him shirtless practically all her life, the boys kept training and fighting all the time. He even fought shirtless for the last part of his duel with Shyriu just the day before.

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The Sixth Position - S2-E10

Stupidity: Magnum is well aware that the person who randomly dropped from the tree to get his attention (!) is all a ruse, but he just leaves Kendall alone to go check him out, thinking to himself through interior monologue that "walking into the trap may keep Kendall out of it." The guy is playing possum face down on the lawn, far off in the distance. How would THAT guy be a more immediate threat to the woman you are bodyguarding, than just telling her "go ahead on your own through the trees"? Who reasons like that, with obviously more people lurking, since the first is merely a diversion? How do the bad guys even think that this could work? And yet, it does. (00:23:20)

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The Taking of Dick McWilliams - S2-E9

Stupidity: If the big Hawaiian dude who is a drinking and fishing buddy of your husband is showing up with a stocking on his face and pretends to kidnap him using the car he always uses, chances are you are gonna recognize him instantly - but not if you are in a TV episode.

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Stupidity: There's no explanation for the level in Italy; Billy and Jimmy have already all the three stones by the end of the Japan battle and they need then to go to Egypt. The NES version does explain it, in a laughable way; Hiruko says a rather silly "We must now travel to Egypt to free Marion, but before we do, we must spend time in Italy, practising for the big battle", Technically the NES version has a different storyline, since Marion is not missing at all in the other versions.

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Tropical Madness - S2-E6

Stupidity: The elaborate plan of the bad guy obviously involves driving Magnum increasingly crazy and create a rift between Higgins and him, but practically all the most damning episodes are outside the bad guy's control, and all the steps he takes are actually harmful towards him should have Magnum been in any way competent at his job. He couldn't have predicted that Magnum would paint the whole episode under the ridiculous light of "sumo wrestler and midget" instead of "big guy and small guy", he couldn't have predicted he'd stain himself, he'd try and force himself upon the girl, he wouldn't check the girl's background.

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Tropical Madness - S2-E6

Stupidity: For the ending to happen, TC must have had his chopper sitting by if not landed directly in the estate, without Higgins saying a thing about it, wondering what was it doing there, etc. He came by van.

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Tropical Madness - S2-E6

Stupidity: Higgins believes TC's story about leaning on the gate and causing sparks, but it's barely 20 seconds between the moment the lights go off and when he shows up; in 20 seconds he couldn't be from the gate of the five acres estate to the mansion's door if he ran to it, surely not in a casual night saunter. (00:39:00)

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Dead Man's Channel - S2-E2

Stupidity: Magnum, Rick and Marion have yet to towel themselves and change their soaked clothes when the police has been called, have already arrived and recovered the body fishing it from the bay. (00:25:00)

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J.'Digger' Doyle - S1-E17

Stupidity: The good fellas at Laseronics have a CCTV camera Joy and Magnum get past, which somehow detects her sneezing from the other end of a huge hall with active machinery. The camera does not detect the sound in Higgins' cell, and they don't give a damn about the fact that the camera has not been broadcasting anything since someone threw a towel on it. Strangest security system ever. (00:37:15)

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Doragon! Muteki no ken to tate - S1-E4

Stupidity: The tournament bracket of the Galaxian Wars makes hardly any sense, in particular in the anime where there is no explanation for its creation and why some fighters have a "bye"; the preliminary round is not over yet, two fighters have no opponents and one is missing, but they rush a fighter who battled just 2 days before, against someone fresh.

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Yomigaere! Eiyuu Densetsu - S1-E1

Stupidity: Despite being in training for 6 years at the temple to compete for a magical armor consecrated to a constellation and meant to harness the power of the Cosmos, Cassios and everyone else but Marin (Shaina towards the end) are mistified about the whole idea when Seiya uses it. What in the world have they all been training for, for 6 years, then? Shaina has to be the worst trainer ever. Cassios even calls it a 'superstition', but his master Shaina channels the power perfectly. It's like a Muggle working at Hogwarts and not believing in magic.

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Lest We Forget - S1-E10

Stupidity: The whole knife fight scene is pure silliness; the two got married - when and how, would be nice to know, since it was the middle of the night - and already planned to escape. They are on the car, and just the cranky maitresse talking to them from the stairs; they could and should simply drive off, and nobody could have done anything to stop them. Instead he just stays there to reply to her and gets back in the alley to have a pointless knife fight with the pimp.

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Missing in Action - S1-E9

Stupidity: The poor soldier Magnum is looking for during the whole episode falls into the water once the agent shoots at him. You can't really tell if he was hit, where, how badly, but does not matter; somehow, in a reverse of the proverbial plot armor, Magnum and his girlfriend just assume he's dead and don't even attempt to dive in to save him. He's dead, because they read the script and know he is. (00:45:00)

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Missing in Action - S1-E9

Stupidity: Magnum must have been blind to Miss Newton and Laura to his right, and even worse for Eric, who had a much higher vantage point, with Newton dragging Laura around through a perfectly clear space. (00:45:00)

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Stupidity: In the flashback about the way the victim was poisoned, it would seem that the murderer straight out went to a waitress and handed them a single chalice of poisoned champagne, ordering the waitress to give that exact glass to the victim. That's just a little bit absurd; if it's a flashback based on a testimony, the case should have been solved in 0.1 minutes once the waitress says that that very well known person asked them to bring a glass to the victim - it's a request highly unusual and that would be easily remembered. If it's just some wild guess of the detective, that's a mighty strange way to imagine how things went, rather than just the killer slipping venom in the victim's glass when they were not looking. (01:04:00)

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Stupidity: In the first murder, the victim is strangled, frontally and bare-handed, by a woman his size, and his only reaction throughout his agony and protests is to put his hands on hers. You gotta have no instinct of self-preservation whatsoever. (00:02:00)

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Skin Deep - S1-E6

Stupidity: TC moves down the cliff to help Magnum only after a whole lot of time has passed, but he had to hear the shots being fired in the uninhabited island way earlier than that.

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No Need to Know - S1-E5

Stupidity: Magnum saves the day in a dramatic car chase...but just in the previous episode it was shown that the Robin-2 Audi has a car phone. He could have simply told everyone over the phone to get out of the vehicle.

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