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CTDKZOO t1_j2nkwb2 wrote

Reply to comment by BarGamer in Pulling together different technologies to make interstellar colonization possible by matthewgdick

Just read your reviews and this comment from a three-star had me rolling:

>The problem is that anyone half-way competent would never have made these mistakes in the first place, so there wouldn't have been a plot.

Oh when this person hits the workplace and finds out that average is excellence...

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Teripid t1_j2nlgbd wrote

Most killer/zombie movies would last about 20 minutes if people had common sense.

Also don't get me started on Jaws.

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Icerios t1_j2nvqsr wrote

> Oh when this person hits the workplace and finds out that average is excellence...

Spot on, hahaha.

Unfortunately, though, plot demands conflict, so of course something must go awry. Otherwise your tale is just a bland documentary following a fictitious series of events.

In terms of realism, whenever humans have any involvement in anything, there will be some mistakes that’ll look utterly ridiculous in hindsight. Just look at the glitch the ~$10B James Webb telescope suffered. If it happened in fiction, it’d be criticized for being a cheap plot device. Hard realism is an “unrealistic” mix of diabolus ex machina, diabolus ex nihilo, and deus ex machina.

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zoinkability t1_j3nvt5v wrote

What was the glitch in the JWST? Having only paid attention to it for a bit over a year everything seems to have gone smoothly. Are you referring to a glitch that delayed the project completion? I know it was tremendously over budget and schedule.

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