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Been arguing with a friend about some of the plot holes found in X3. So...what are they? Are some of them explainable? Which ones aren't?
The one we focused on earlier was: "Why didnt the cops show up during the Jean's home sequence"?
My answer to this one is...I don't neccessarily think it's a plot hole. Let's look at this logically.
The stuff in and outside the house happens. Granted, there are some strange-looking people standing around, but they're not actually doing anything violent, so it's unlikely someone would call the cops. But when the fighting/confrontation starts, let's say someone calls the police.
The actual intense parts of the scene are what, five or six minutes long?
The average police response time for something termed "priority one" (serious calls, like murder, rape, etc) is said to be something like eight minutes. In my criminology classes, we were taught that it's more like ten to twelve. Also, god knows how many people called to report a house floating in the air. Maybe some of them couldn't get through. Maybe mass confusion or a lack of knowing how to react delayed police response time. Hell, I wonder more about where Jean's parents were than I do about the cops not showing up. Not that one or two police cars showing up would have been very exciting. And many showing up kind of smacks of what happened in X2.
So...other plotholes? Angel's cross country trip clearly falls into the category, as does the rapid change from day to night at Alcatraz. Some feel Magneto and his band of merry mutants should have had trouble moving about in such large numbers...
The one we focused on earlier was: "Why didnt the cops show up during the Jean's home sequence"?
My answer to this one is...I don't neccessarily think it's a plot hole. Let's look at this logically.
The stuff in and outside the house happens. Granted, there are some strange-looking people standing around, but they're not actually doing anything violent, so it's unlikely someone would call the cops. But when the fighting/confrontation starts, let's say someone calls the police.
The actual intense parts of the scene are what, five or six minutes long?
The average police response time for something termed "priority one" (serious calls, like murder, rape, etc) is said to be something like eight minutes. In my criminology classes, we were taught that it's more like ten to twelve. Also, god knows how many people called to report a house floating in the air. Maybe some of them couldn't get through. Maybe mass confusion or a lack of knowing how to react delayed police response time. Hell, I wonder more about where Jean's parents were than I do about the cops not showing up. Not that one or two police cars showing up would have been very exciting. And many showing up kind of smacks of what happened in X2.
So...other plotholes? Angel's cross country trip clearly falls into the category, as does the rapid change from day to night at Alcatraz. Some feel Magneto and his band of merry mutants should have had trouble moving about in such large numbers...
