Do you believe it is possible for there to be plot holes when a series is unfinished? Like, for example, a lot of the series I read they build with each book until they reach the conclusion leading to parts being left out until they come together at the end.
So if you only read ONE book in the series there are clearly going to be plot-holes but are they truly plot holes if they get resolved by the end of the series?
by bunnykins22
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that would be like saying you didn’t finish a book and then blaming the book for being unfinished.
I avoid this by not reading trash, I only read high brow literary plot holes.
I think most “plot holes” are dumb. Sometimes you don’t get all the answers and aren’t intended to. Sometimes different characters have different perspectives and don’t agree. Sometimes an “error” is intended to highlight something for you to pick at later.
Sometimes an author makes an actual mistake. But there are a lot more cases of “I don’t think the character should have acted like that” called “plot holes” even when it’s entirely consistent with the character that we’ve seen than there are actual broken, story confusing writing mistakes.
Unresolved plot lines are not plot holes.