Three Strikes

[madbaker]

We didn't finish watching The Gentlemen. What caused us to metaphorically throw the remote against the wall:

1. My previous rant about continually enabling trainwreck family members.
2. The weed-growing organization is supposedly professional and relatively low-drama. So why is the pothead botanist put in charge of delivering a van-full of product? He's a genius at breeding pot, but a total idiot otherwise. He'd be kept in the grow lab and any other responsibilities would go to someone with baseline competency.
3. The pothead botanist brings a prospective girlfriend into said (massive, underground) grow lab. There's no security?

Not so much "deus ex stupida" as lazy script-writing.

Comments

[beanolc]

I'm stealing "deus ex stupida".

[madbaker]

Heh. I use "deus ex stupida" when a person behaves in uncharacteristically stupid ways to further the plot.

In one particular book, there is a major plot element involving phone calls not going through - which multiple characters remark on, but then never think anything further about. And that lack is never explained even though a normal person would start to wonder after the second and third time.