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In reply to the discussion: What's the most flawed science SciFi TV show or movie? [View all]Buckeye_Democrat
(14,853 posts)... and the plot itself.
The tessaract INSIDE the black hole, Cooper finding his daughter's book shelf within it, communicating the equations of quantum-gravity with Morse code to her... and the basic plot that a 5th-dimensional "they" decided all of this was the best way to save the human race from extinction for whatever reason?!
It had a few accurate and interesting parts, such as the time dilation near the black hole, but too much of it was unnecessarily inaccurate to create an emotionally compelling story... and the movie often sucked in that regard as well.
There comes a point with science-fi, as far as I'm concerned, that the director might as well go "all in" with nonsense. Why not have unicorns and fairies directing Cooper to the book shelf? Might as well! Then the inevitable apologists can simply argue, "Well, it's POSSIBLE since we can't see what's within the event horizon!"