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May 31, 2017 at 20:07 comment added Radhil @Valorum - I think we can acknowledge it. That one Potter example is just easy because the author admitted it. Other examples are harder to prove because it's the right answer to those not interested in the details and the wrong answer (and a possible cop out) to those who are. I wouldn't mind seeing it brought up more often, just with more tact or respect - but that's a limited resource around here, for questioners, answerers, and the works in question all around.
May 30, 2017 at 20:40 comment added Valorum @duskwuff - Exactly. And if we can't acknowledge Bellisario's maxim here, where can we do it? Shows are made to limited budgets by small numbers of people under time pressure, working with actors who hate each other, many of whom are drunk, drugged, hung-over or just plain bored and didn't bother to read their lines
May 30, 2017 at 20:23 comment added user41830 Sometimes, the answer really is that the author didn't think of it. For example: Dudley Dursley's (time-travelling?) Playstation.
May 19, 2017 at 21:19 comment added Valorum @zabeus - It has ever been thus.
May 19, 2017 at 21:17 comment added Z. Cochrane And sometimes it's just because they're schmucks.
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