The suggestion that Lippe is catnip to the ladies in fact runs throughout – but it's a frankly implausible character trait, given his humourlessness and gaucheness.
On one level she is a slightly implausible character – a sort of female Jason Bourne – but Spotnitz has given Sam an intriguing enough back-story – and George portrays her with enough veiled emotional intensity – to suck you in.
An attractive but implausible character, played skittishly by Ruairi Conaghan, his scenes dominate the first hour of the play, introducing multiple themes – class conflict, religious discrimination, feminism – that hamper momentum, while the tone veers from comedy to heavy polemic.
A favourite with students and grownups who really should know better, Dr. Mark Sloan, played by reformed mockney Dick Van Dyke, is one of the most implausible characters to take to the screen.
Martin set out to have the young characters grow up faster between chapters, but as it was implausible for a character to take two months to respond, a finished book represents very little time passed.
Changing events require flexibility of response, and since it is psychologically implausible for human character to change with the times, the republic offers a viable alternative: people of different qualities fit different exigencies.
The one person to whom these aggrieved individuals have confided their disappointments and dreams is Adam Berendt, a sculptor known as the town's local eccentric, and, clearly, one of the most implausible and bogus characters Ms. Oates has created in her long and very prolific career.
Kyōka's first successful work, "Giketsu kyōketsu" (1894; "Noble Blood, Heroic Blood"), is melodramatic and implausible, but the characters are so vivid that the story was easily turned into a play.
Mr. Poitier's role in "Guess Who's Coming to Dinner" is shown to signal the end of an era, not only for implausible, hamstrung black characters but also for veteran screen personages like Katharine Hepburn and Spencer Tracy.
If a reader finds one of his characters implausible, he told me, he won't be able to dig into a pile of books in his office and prove that reader wrong: "I feel much more naked, for lack of a better word".
"Games with implausible and annoying characters popping up at regular intervals are just too stressful," said Miller.
