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@Arise: Ah, I see what you did there. Perhaps "physics person" is part of my antics like the flashy swords in Star Wars. In its day the lightsabers turned off a log of classical theater types (even Alec McGuiness), and perhaps I thought I had gotten away with more than I could.

I give you credit for daring to put time into a well written post where few eyes roam. Perhaps you are overlooked in the daily steps you take in your visible role through life while privately aspiring to reveal something that breaks through the ocean of mediocrity out there in the world.

I agree 'do no harm' should come first for films (a recommendation that was quickly swatted away for BVS to be sure -if it ever came up) ... but in this universe, perhaps we can have greater clarity of what it means to be authentic when we are up to our knees in cash grabs.

As for the scientific esoteric plot holes, you and I are saying the same thing. Bill Nye (who I have fond memories of) rants against The Force Awakens because of its scientific holes, but that film is going to be remembered long after Nye is gone. I don't believe the Menorah stayed lit as long as they say, but the message of purity (how seldom it comes up these days) refreshes my appetites for the lack of a better word.

I can't help but recall the writings of Doyle, who -although working in a field rife with forensic details- managed to drawn in the mysterious and unexplainable corners of life into his work.

If you are suggesting the development of the character can itself be the plot, well, yes! It sure can be. This was perhaps 60% of what made the original Karate Kid such a good movie. Your average studio execs question the attention span of an audience asked to sit through the hard knocks and subtle reflections of a suffering character in this generation. There are more fantasy films in the 21st century than you can shake a stick at because people would rather dwell in far fetched stories than explore the (tedious! meticulous!) choices they have been afforded in their own life.

Perhaps I am selling out, but I would rather have some action where the main character has some brief glimpse into his own longings as he or she overcomes his hardships. That way I can latch onto that and tell myself I am walking out of the theater with something while the critics write affect over the fau pauxs and unprofessionalisms and the box office coarsely weighs in.

That being said, although there are plot points in Wile E. Coyote vs. the Road Runner, we don't really see much into these characters, and in the end the characters are just plot devices wrapped around nothing. Looney Tunes are good for a laugh, but, as the Hebrew saying goes, can disguise a lot of hard and ugly things inside. So the way I see it even though character development is very connected to story points these are very separate things.

Please speak up where I am wandering from something important as you have shown you are capable of doing. Arise!