Heavy Rain plot holes *spoilers*

[mike_intellivision]

What this sounds like is that is not plot holes -- but hack writing.

I see this on TV a lot, situations arise that either (a) could not happen in real life or (b) bear little resemblance to their real life counterparts.

For example, I have seen in anything from TV shows aimed at children to TV shows that were nominated for Emmy's a high school basketball game held in a "gym" with five rows of seats on one side and metal backboards. Unless this is a period piece, gyms are not that small and certainly not that ill-equipped. (And I speak from experience, I covered high school sports from 1983-1995 and NEVER saw a metal backboard and never saw a gym that did not seat at least several hundred people -- and gyms for the schools being portrayed had capacities from 1,000 to 2,500).

In other words, the writer is doing something that will work for the story -- but not in the real world. With 22 different endings, that is going to happen. But greater care to reduce (if not eliminate) them should be done.

Many TV shows need a Real World BS test. From this example, so do some games.

Mike from Morgantown