Wednesday 30 June 2021

Coincidences

I’m not a fan of coincidences in fiction, which is one contributing factor to my conspiracy mystery plots.

Reminded of this because apparently in Blood Red Sky, a movie about a vampire on a hijacked plane (which unlike a Buffy one-shot I ran fifteen years ago isn’t called Stakes On A Plane) the hijackers aren’t vampire hunters or anything, they just managed to hijack a plan with a vampire on it. Oopsie.

Which, sure, okay for an inciting incident - Die Hard, Taken and John Wick all start with the antagonists accidentally messing with the protagonist - but somehow with a vampire involved it seems a bit much. And y’know, I throw vampires into different genres all the time. It just seems like them being after her specifically (possibly with incomplete information) would be one less implausibility to deal with.

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