I feel like every story has a plot hole.
Especially time travel stories, none of them ever has a consistant rule of time travel.
I feel like every story has a plot hole.
Especially time travel stories, none of them ever has a consistant rule of time travel.
TBH, most fiction have 0 plot holes. Most people who use the term ‘plot hole’ in commentary on the internet are using it incorrectly. They tend to use it to mean “something happens which I personally dislike or don’t understand” rather than it’s real meaning, “something that directly contradicts previous plot points and leads to a logical inconsistency.” That is, it’s only a plot hole if it literally cannot happen because it would negate some other plot element.
A character making a decision that feels out of character isn’t a plot hole. Someone not choosing to use the sci-fi magic tech to solve a problem when it exists in-universe isn’t a plot hole. It might be bad writing. But it’s not a logical inconsistency.
A plot hole would be something like a plot point centering around a character’s illiteracy (in a manner where it’s clear they’re not faking) after a scene where the character is shown reading.
One of the biggest ones in mystery is “Why didn’t X simply Y”
They can literally just be stupid. Or ego driven. Etc.
There’s a great series of mystery games where the final villain even admits this exactly. He found evidence of a murder plot against the sister of his dead girlfriend, and instead of reporting it or detaining those involved, he let it almost happen. It was literally all so he could feel like a hero saving them at the last second, and he says as much directly.
It can also be bad writing. Like, an author can just write inconsistent characters. That doesn’t mean it’s a plot hole.