Blizzic

> "Here's the thing - writing is hard. Like really, really hard."
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**Tanner McEveety**, better known as **Blizzic**, is a YouTuber who was covered on EFAP 12. While he did not come onto the show, he left a kind comment on the video after the fact thanking them for their feedback and overall civility and agreeing that there were some flaws in his video.

## History

### Why Plot Holes Don't Matter

> "So for the love of god, can we stop citing plot holes as valid criticism?"
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EFAP covered Blizzic's video "Why Plot Holes Don't Matter" on EFAP 12, ten episodes after having covered Patrick Willems' video arguing the same. He prefaced his video by talking about how it took seven rewrites and eleven months of thinking before it was completed, then described what follows as his religion: "Plot Holes Don't Matter."

read most dangerous game in school and asked how two characters got sword and his teacher commented how its nitpick compared to how improbable the premise of the story is

“stories are of the concerned with showing us the spectacular or showing us the mundanity in a highly entertaining way. in order to be engaging stories tend to tackle the impossible, the improbable and the other extremes of the reality. And we want to enjoy stories, so suspending our disbelief of these extremes is kind of the price of entry”

“stories operate with givens, they give us information such as in this world dueling with laser swords is a viable way of fighting or there are giant naked monsters that eat people and soldiers kill them with grappling hooks and swords. even simple stuff like the main character is eccentric and weir in this particular way”

”if you are not willing to buy into that then the story can’t operate, but if you are familiar with the concept of suspension of disbelief then you are probably familiar with the idea that it can be broken. something in the narrative will trigger a reaction in your mind that will take you out of the story and make you unwilling to dive back in. but what does this what breaks the suspension of disbelief? ask most people and they hit you with that classic logic argument: if the story doesn’t make logical sense or in another words, if there’s plot holes then it breaks the suspension of disbelief and ruins the experience”

but lot of good movies have a lot of logical plot holes, like why don’t they use eagles.

people just forget about the One Ring when Isildur dies, when it had in fact gone missing for centuries and no one knew Isildur had it

lord of the rings is great

wonders if with these flaws and suspension of disbelief is so easily broken, how can lord of the rings enjoyable at all?

it would be difficult to have fun with the movie if you can’t buy into the story

thinks that just because parody of the show is more liked than the original and it didn’t remove or fix the plot hole, then the plot holes doesn’t matter because the parody is good, people didn’t care that it was in parody because parody was good

parody solved a plot hole in its story

presentation, story and characters have to be good, otherwise people notice and pay more attention to the plotholes

in good movies the plot holes are minor and surface level

effect on the audience matters and in order to do that the plot must function, even if its not logical

“no one enjoys a story because the A to B logic of the plot, they enjoy them because the emotion they instill on them. that’s the key word, emotion. stories are emotional experiences their objective is to get you feel and translate empathy, to foster investment in a situation that’s not your own”

“logic is the opposite of emotion, and though basic logic is obviously critical to living our everyday life, its usually kind of unexciting and cold” trying to use logic to comfort someone that’s crying could fall short or its not important.

logic matters sometimes, but then you are not enjoying logic, but the “cerebral intrigue”

clashing tone also breaks people out of the story, but can be okay if the plot hole works with the tone, like goofy things can happen in more of unrealistic and goof movie

if you didn’t notice big bad's plan making no sense then it doesn’t matter. jokers plan doesn’t make sense and people like the movie so it doesn’t matter. storys tone is maintained

you disconnect yourself and start looking for plot holes instead of movie disconnecting you

"none of this is to say that "if you are a writer you shouldn’t even try to hear to a basic logic, because if you don’t you going to end up with bunch of blatant plot holes that punch holes to your verisimilitude” like doing something with police you have to represent them “it is your duty” so to not release “misinformation”. you also have to uses logic to represent historical fiction

sometimes writing has to be sacrificed to serve the plot

“Because at the end of a day, that kind of stuff has nothing to do with how the story functions. The barebones amount of logic you need to tell a compelling story is simply enough so the audience can follow the story, make connections and be engaged, everything else is extra”

would you have enjoyed the story more if there was plot hole you saw?

we don’t experience stories because we want to see people do the most logical thing and make right choice every time, we experience them because we wat to see people mess up and make mistakes, account for those mistakes, battle for their circumstances their flaws or both and witness a satisfying conclusion to this battle. in another words we expires stories for the conflict“

makes Patrick points, like how people are logical and how the last jedi plot holes are not plot holes

we have found the originator

thinks that when people are trying to outsmart the story when they point out plot holes.

people put their life and time into the writing, so why are you pointing out the plot holes

#### Comment

Blizzic left the following comment on the VOD of EFAP 12 -

"Hi. Thank you for being nice to the small guy. I'm not really going to try to take the discussion any further because I'm aware this video has some pretty big flaws and am also just a student trying to get better at making videos. I never really expected this video to be in this position and I think defending it would be pointless. But thank you for featuring me nonetheless."

## Quotes

“execution of dramatic function”

“If anyone ever wants to explain why a story was bad in their opinion, plot holes are first to come up and it just gets on my nerves.”

“Ask yourself, do plot holes actually matter or am I just trying to feel like a intellectual?”

“95% of the time, logic is not the problem.”