IT IS the sort of plot on which network prime-time TV thrives: backwoodsman from the Rocky Mountains, who founded a business by selling satellite dishes out of a pick-up truck (Charlie Ergen), outsmarts savvy media mogul (Rupert Murdoch) to clinch America's biggest satellite-television operator (DirecTV).
In the sort of plot twist that you'd dismiss as too corny in a fictional tale, the great fertility god has a problem with his own sperm count, although his loving wife is unaware that the fault lies with him and not her.
It also recalls the sort of plot-simplification and culprit-skewering of Mao's prime, when good and evil were as clearly differentiated as the uniforms of Communists and Nationalists.
The overriding themes of betrayal, revenge, secret love, and complex family histories are the sorts of plot lines that frequently feature in the teleserye soap operas - originally inspired by Latin American telenovelas - that play on Philippine television channels at night.
These are the sorts of plot devices that deserve to die a slow death and be left in the past, but at the franchise's core and what separates the Bond franchise from countless other mindless action spectacles is a sense of adventure, danger, elegance, and fun.
To those thinking this sort of thing isn't a plot hole, realize that it's a logical inconsistency that serves to contradict everything else said about (a) the shrewdness of Maz Kanata, (b) the value of Luke's light saber, (c) the dangerousness of Kanata's cantina, and (d) Kanata's commitment to the Resistance.
If you start to like doing this sort of thing, try having a plot in a series of drawings.
A sort of plot then unfolds.
Each vignette is presented as a sort of plot equation that never really adds up.
"But they see it as some sort of plot to standardize people's minds and make everyone robotically the same".
