[ SECRET POST #4633 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #4633 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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[Stranger Things, Robin and Steve]


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Comments

[(Anonymous)]

I refuse to believe that's a difficulty that can't be overcome. At most, it refutes very limited kinds of plot twists, or forces you to make a quick aside about phones being out of battery or something.

I mean it's not like it's stopped Riverdale from being completely batshit crazy.

[(Anonymous)]

Yeah, every horror movie now happens with a careful aside showing that cell reception doesn't work, because that's the only way most of them could happen if set in the real world modern day. But after the 10th time, it starts being like, oh look yet *another* place where mysteriously technology fails, or ha ha yet another plucky heroine lost her phone off a convenient cliff and it gets grating and feels lazy.

I haven't seen Riverdale, so I can't speak to that.

[(Anonymous)]

tbh as someone who recently sprained both of my ankles hiking solo, in a state park with 0 cell service, and just had to keep very slowly climbing down the mountain literally all night

this doesn't seem hugely unreasonable to me.

it would be nice if it wasn't necessary for EVERY plot, though

[(Anonymous)]

Hell, I have been in places that WEREN'T the middle of nowhere that still had shitty cell phone reception. I live in a city so I'm used to being able to get reception everywhere, even underground in the subway, and when I went about 45 minutes out into the suburbs I was shocked by how spotty my reception was. And I have a major cell carrier too (Verizon), not some dinky local carrier.

[(Anonymous)]

Here's the thing. Nobody is going like "people whose spouses die are unrealistic and this doesn't happen." We know people's spouses die; it happens a lot.

The unrealistic thing is that it happens in like every story and is the impetus for every manpained hero and the go-to for lazy writing to cause drama or make sure a plot works. Whether it happens in real life or not isn't the point here. It happening at all isn't the unrealistic part, it's that it happens every time

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My comment cut off early.

It happening at all isn't the unrealistic part, it's that it happens every time, exactly the same as the oops! no phones! gimmick. It's the standard and easy way out in the exact same way. And as reasonable or believable as each individual instance of dead phones or dead wives might be, do you not at some point start rolling your eyes?