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Voltaire2

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5. There were a couple of things off with the show.
Wed Feb 26, 2025, 12:55 PM
Feb 26

Overall the show was pretty good. However, our current crisis far exceeds the imaginational boundaries of these sorts of shows.

As always 'cyber attack' plots get stupid as the details get revealed.

The 'radical centrists' twist was sort of preposterous. The equivalence of 'preferred pronouns' to 'massive disinformation', the 'both sides bad' speech, was insulting.

Also they sort of just dropped without explanation the 'proteus' plot arch. You don't introduce a gun in the first act and then just make it irrelevant. It's known as Chekhov's Gun. Adding irrelevant plot twists is infuriating.

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