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To: epicure who wrote (51256)	3/1/2024 1:59:14 PM
From: LoneClone	Read Replies (1) \| Respond to of 51710

The problem is that this genre requires the use of reason and intelligence and hard work to solve crimes. Having the protagonist act like an idiot undermines that. (If it was bravado and derring-do and guns rather than reason and intelligence and hard work, it would be an action show.) Another way to look at it comes from an interview I read with someone, I can't remember who because it was so long ago, who commented that all movies are riddled with errors -- most IMDB pages for movies and television has some kind of listing of them -- so the key is whether the rest of the show is engrossing enough for you to not even notice them, or at the very least overlook them. And that also applies to books. The first time I read Dune, I was carried along by the narrative and ideas, but the when I tried reading it again, I barely made it through because I started noticing all the logical inconsistencies and dropped plot lines. Reading the book became a chore rather than a pleasure. Clearly, with the Vanishing Triangle, the rest of the series was enough to distract you from noticing that particular problem, or at least from concentrating on it, but it wasn't enough to distract me. LC