The Biggest Plot Hole

[Smashing]

Plot holes can be ignored when the videos are fun to watch. The illusion doesn't have to be seamless to be entertaining. For instance maybe a flashbang would really hurt people in an elevator...I don't care, because that video was fun to me. Sometimes the characters make a better video than their character would make if it were real...hey, I'm just happy to get a better video. They say YouTube is not apart of the Breeniverse anymore...okay. Doesn't matter to me, because the premise is still the same.

But as the show gets lost in circles and "what do we do next?" questions, one thing becomes increasingly hard for me to swallow.

Wouldn't at least one of the viewers within the Breeniverse, the ones that the characters have addressed directly in the videos, tip off a non-Order member of the law enforcement community? Or tip off the media with this huge story: An attractive young vlogger, her father kidnapped and murdered by an evil terrorist-like Order, her friend held hostage and brainwashed, their continuing danger, and it's all on video?

And wouldn't the media run the story and contact law enforcement? And wouldn't at least one non-Order law enforcement officer begin to investigate the case? I think Bree and Co. would find out about this outside attention through, if nowhere else, lonelygirl15.com. Wouldn't they be given an option of staying somewhere safe? I think this attention from media/law enforcement would be worth referencing at least once in their videos. Don't tell me no one's watching the videos, because then who are they talking to?

I'd be surprised if they could explain this to my satisfaction. If not, all I can hope for is that they make it entertaining enough that I don't care.

[curiousgeorge]

Beating my same old drum:

I think the bigger plot hole is why they continue to release videos at all after they have found out that the bad guys can "see" them. As this would pretty much end the series I can understand why this is not going to happen... I still think it was really dumb to go down this road though and could have been handled in a different way.

That drum beaten, all of your points are correct Smashing and I have no rational explanation for you...

[Smashing]

Yeah, this isn't the first time I or others have brought this up either. I honestly do forget about it as things get interesting, then start thinking about it again when things are boring.

For a while I was considering the giant fanwank that on some level, Bree and Co. realize that they are fictional characters and are only making videos to entertain us, the people in the real world (gettin' all trippy and meta on ya) But if they did consider themselves fictional, they don't show it in any other way besides uploading videos. If Bree, Daniel, and Jonas sit up late at night having an existential crisis, asking each other "Are we real? Do you ever think we're just, like, characters in some dude's mind, man? Whoa..." they aren't videotaping that episode.
It's too bad, cause I think that would be an interesting episode. But the creators would probably be afraid of losing more viewers than they would gain by going in that direction, and I can't blame them.

edit to add: It just occured to me that the Nikki Bower Report represents the viewer within the Breeniverse that is investigating the case. I believe the creators have some amount of say in the production of these NBR vids, and if they wanted, they could've taken control and elevated them from friendfic to canon. But they didn't, and now those vids can't answer any questions.

[slainte]

I have often wondered if crazy people know how crazy they are and I'm sure there is a scientific explanation.

Now I wonder if fictional characters know that they are in fact fictional characters. Haven't there been stories about that?

MAybe Bree and the Bookends know hat they are ficitonal characters and as such they have been instructed not to know about things the authors don't want them to know about.

WHOAAAAAAAA.........spooky....I just read Smashings post just above mine. Yikes.

I should delete mine I guess but I'll leave it as evidence he is not alone in his thinking.