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I'm going to start doing this every now and then.
Sharing random knowledge i find.
Today the term
Voodoo Shark:
"The writers catch a particularly bad Plot Hole, but they leave it in because it is still critical to the story. The Voodoo Shark is an attempt to Handwave it rather than disrupt the story — except the Hand Wave itself is a Plot Hole. It might even make the initial Plot Hole bigger.
Coined by Chuck Sonnenberg, the term refers to the novelization of Jaws: The Revenge (a film not held in high regard) where the eponymous shark seeks out and attacks the living relatives and friends of Martin Brody, following them all the way to the Bahamas. Apparently a voodoo curse had been placed on Martin and his family to explain how a shark understands the concept of revenge and how it's able to keep finding these people. What makes it the trope namer is that the writer doesn't bother to answer the question of why the voodoo curse was made in the first place, or any of the other countless questions that come to mind."
Voodoo Shark:
"The writers catch a particularly bad Plot Hole, but they leave it in because it is still critical to the story. The Voodoo Shark is an attempt to Handwave it rather than disrupt the story — except the Hand Wave itself is a Plot Hole. It might even make the initial Plot Hole bigger.
Coined by Chuck Sonnenberg, the term refers to the novelization of Jaws: The Revenge (a film not held in high regard) where the eponymous shark seeks out and attacks the living relatives and friends of Martin Brody, following them all the way to the Bahamas. Apparently a voodoo curse had been placed on Martin and his family to explain how a shark understands the concept of revenge and how it's able to keep finding these people. What makes it the trope namer is that the writer doesn't bother to answer the question of why the voodoo curse was made in the first place, or any of the other countless questions that come to mind."
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