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[bjornwilde]

Tell us about a plot hole that you have to ignore every time you review your pup’s canon.  

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[acertainpov]

Just the one?

[inlovewithwords]

No.

[zenigatcha]

Man, I'm not sure there was anything too major in ATLA. There were some little things, but it was pretty tightly written.

Lan Zhan: the yin iron. everything around the yin iron. EVERYTHING.

Zenigata: look each single series/movie stands alone and can only be cobbled into a semi-coherent timeline with spit, duct tape and a lot of headcanon. It runs on negative continuity and picks and chooses what it'll acknowledge per series/film.

[bjornwilde]

Star Wars: The biggest thing I always grumble about is communications being instantaneous no matter how far away the parties are. Also how often party A will call the Council for help and Party B shows up in time to help, even though they are systems away.

Marvel: The elasticity of character development. Like I get the characters are your brand and you need to maintain brand, but let the characters grow. Or don't. Stop the reboots.

[lonesome_moonflower]

WHAT HAPPENED WITH THE FORGE AND GORGE, KLEI

DON'T TELL ME THEY WENT THERE AND CAME BACK TO THE CONSTANT, THAT DOESN'T MAKE ANY SENSE

[angry_friendship_wolf]

Digimon Adventure is fairly tightly written and doesn't have much in the way of plot holes, but what it does have is things that are left unclear, or with the details sprawled over several mediums, on account of viewpoints.

The anime is rigidly confined to just the eight kids' point of view, and anything they don't learn, the audience also doesn't learn; the novels, meanwhile, bring in viewpoints from Gennai, Wizarmon, Piccolomon, Nanomon, and Leomon, which flesh things out somewhat -- except that none of those have a complete understanding of the world around them, and will often contradict each other or present things they believe to be true but which actually aren't as outright fact.

So canon review often involves a degree of piecing together different accounts to get a full picture, and sometimes involves making inferences from those accounts: For example, nobody in the series or the novels tells the audience how Vamdemon figured out how to open the Gate in Castle Homeostasis -- but since we learn twenty episodes later that it's Gennai's castle, it's made clear that Vamdemon's own superiors don't know how to operate the Gate, and Gennai needs a pretext to get the kids away from the Digital World while still giving them an enemy to train against, it becomes apparent that Gennai told Vamdemon how to open the Gate, and effectively orchestrated his invasion of Earth.