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I would love fiction with less plot holes. It definitely kills the immersion for me. An AI would also (eventually) have no issues with continuity which would

• 23B1 4y ago
  I'm a working screenwriter, so please forgive us, but you'd be surprised at how challenging it is to make something air-tight plot-wise. The way it works is it's a giant Rubik's cube – but imagine a dozen people trying to complete the puzzle, each of them with veto power over each turn. Often what happens is that someone insists on some change without realizing that it creates serious consequences later, downstream. It's obviously my job to keep all of it together - and script coordinators too – but in the rush to get it built, directors, actors, producers can all make changes that ramify down through what is the most waterfall-y of all waterfall processes. Also there's a lot of fans – especially in, say, comic-book movies or popular shows – who go over your stuff with a fine tooth comb. It can get pretty toxic, but rest assured nobody regrets more than us those little holes and details that get missed! We're sorry!