10th Apr 2020
Episode #1.4 - S1-E4
Stupidity: Richard is hellbent on proving what really happened, but he sits for more than a whole day on a vital piece of evidence (the phone), does not check it, and despite the fact that the victim was reported being in heated arguments with someone on the phone, he asked for no record of the calls (nor checked whose phone was it, which would have required simply inspecting the SIM card), which would have cracked the case instantly.
10th Apr 2020
Stupidity: The building is supposed to be without power - at all since the generator has been destroyed - and life support machines are not powered up, but the 3D printers in every room are powered up - so that the good guy can squish the bad guy's head in it, and the elevators, so that the good guys can escape. What sort of hospital has its electric grid rigged in a way that the elevators keep working but critical surgical equipment goes dead the moment the power fails? (01:12:00)
10th Apr 2020
Stupidity: The whole episode has heavy farce tones and shouldn't be taken seriously, because the main plot point does not make sense; unless somehow he was able to produce remains of a body in the plane wreckage, Mr. MacLeish would have never been legally declared dead.
10th Apr 2020
10th Apr 2020
Stupidity: With automatic weapons at the ready, doing a hit that takes less than 5 minutes (going by the hotel security footage), somehow one of the two robbers found time to give constant unnecessary update whatsapps to the guy in the car, with things like "Almost at the door" and"Keep the engine running" and "About to breach", all stuff that he didn't need at all for his job. Absolutely fantastic the "Meet you in garage" bit. To the getaway guy with his engine running in the garage. How logorrheic can you get? And those are trained Navy SEALs.
10th Apr 2020
10th Apr 2020
Foiled Again - S3-E7
Stupidity: Magnum hears from Carol that she's "sorry" and turning to the left he witnesses Higgins getting dragged in court. The two policemen who are escorting him stop at distance from the building, no obstacle or pressure, no reason other than providing a dramatic shot. (00:23:50)
10th Apr 2020
10th Apr 2020
The Woman Who Never Died - S1-E3
Stupidity: The detective Magnum is with does not call reinforcements because they "might spook" the criminal, but he arrives on the scene making a lot of noise and with the emergency lights on. Even if the reinforcements arrived in police cars, they could have easily kept out of sight of the house and lurk around the block.
10th Apr 2020
10th Apr 2020
Stupidity: Earl Gianelli is a man on the run and can't ever show up as himself or the Mafia is gonna try and kill him, so he fights as a masked wrestler. However, for being a masked wrestler he removes his mask very casually backstage with no particular problem, unlike many masked wrestlers of his era who merely needed to keep their character and kayfabe, much less stringent reasons for them to do so than a permanent mafia death sentence pending upon them.
10th Apr 2020
Stupidity: With one humongous stretch of luck (Magnum loses the guy he is looking for but TC who just happens to be generally 'in the air' is close for him enough to just be able to do air recon for him, and spot the guy who is still running because he must have gotten take-away food from half a city away on foot), Magnum arrives so close to him that they are in the same street maybe 10 meters apart. Yet Magnum needs another tip from TC and his passengers to spot him getting inside a house, something he could have never missed. (00:16:00)
10th Apr 2020
Stupidity: On his own in his helicopter, TC earlier in the episode spots a very hard to catch area of vegetation where supposedly the color of the leaves is different from what's expected. However for the ending, with 4 people in the helicopter, everyone but Magnum misses a giant clearing with a bright red excavator in the open.
10th Apr 2020
Stupidity: Stephanie empties Emily's large closet, but when she comes back with the movers, lo and behold, all of the dead person's belongings are back. They are back though exactly as they were with superhuman inch-perfect precision. Since this movie does not have a supernatural element, that appears really silly. (01:00:30)
10th Apr 2020
Stupidity: Magnum saves Higgins from a scheme that was amazingly poorly planned to begin with; forgetting for a moment that as estate manager, Higgins should be very well aware of the closing time of 'the bank' (as if there were just one in Hawaii) even more than Magnum, Catherine could have not just relied on Higgins being this ignorant.
10th Apr 2020
The End Is the Beginning - S1-E3
Stupidity: The Chateau is stormed by the Zhat Vash commandos. The two trusty housekeepers prepare to fight the aggressors armed to the teeth by grabbing... a bread knife and a wine bottle. All is good, since the bottle is super-effective, knocking down a Romulan wearing a helmet. This absurdity aside, moments later during the fight it turns out that the valets had weapons stashed everywhere in the room, even strapped underneath tables! Why would they start off with such ineffectual weapons instead of reaching for the guns, other than of course for dramatic purpose?
10th Apr 2020
Stupidity: Clarice enters the ward with the most dangerous inmates, which is guarded by at least 2 male nurses and an officer, with CCTV and through 2 gates with bars that let the sound out perfectly. Before she enters, Barney the nurse even tells her he'll be watching, and Lecter is obviously the most important patient of the very small wing of the hospital. Clarice stays there barely a couple of minutes; the inmates begin to make a big ruckus, screaming wildly, but there's absolutely nobody to be seen at the gate, where everyone within earshot of the screaming patients would at least peek. Especially counting the fact that she already broke the regulation about getting close to the glass rather early in the chat, which should have alerted the guards. (00:12:00)
21st Mar 2020
Remembrance - S1-E1
Stupidity: In this episode wily old battle genius Jean-Luc Picard and amazingly smart human-android Dahj act exactly by the definition of stupidity of this website ("something daft, like running upstairs with a killer behind them, instead of out of the front door"), and even surpass it, because the killers are not even chasing them yet. And why not? Because they are in a public area with a ton of people in the middle of what is basically the capital of the world; no band of kidnappers would attack at that point, or at least, it's way more unlikely. But from there, our nearly centenarian hero (steps away from official government buildings and in a world with communicators, teleports etc.) goes up a ramp of stairs leading to a desert rooftop with no exit and no witnesses, exactly where a group of evildoers would attack - and are even able to cover their tracks up exactly because of this choice. (00:31:50)
Suggested correction: Picard is being led by the extremely combat-effective android. She has previously fought off these attackers with ease, and had succeeded again. It was only the exploding rifle that stopped her escaping. Picard and Dahj would rather lure attackers away from a populated area in order to protect bystanders, since the attackers were coming either way.
The slowly-exploding rifle somehow unavoidable for the super-fast android that dies from the barf that a middle-aged caretaker shrugs off would deserve a stupidity entry of its own, but back to the point: if the attackers came their way, they would have never been able to erase their traces by deleting footage, and therefore they would have been the 'stupid' ones. This is pure movie logic and plot convenience, just like the designated victim in a slasher running upstairs rather than screaming bloody murder in the street where they can be helped or dissuade the killer from getting into unfavourable situations.
21st Mar 2020
Cucuruz Doan's Island - S1-E15
Stupidity: Amuro came to the island to respond to an SOS. He finds the pilots, tries to tend to their wounds, they die. He then meets a Zaku pilot that orders him to surrender. Amuro manages to jump on the Core Fighter, take off and then...tries a desperate and very hard maneuver to fight the Zaku, when at that point he simply needed to fly back to White Base; the Zaku could have never followed him. He has nothing at stake, no need at all to fight. And the Zaku pilot even told him that he did not want to fight to begin with. (00:08:00)
21st Mar 2020
Stupidity: The Zeon commandos who plant the bombs on the Gundam correctly identify Amuro as the pilot. The Gundam is completely defenseless and pilotless during the whole bomb removal process - they could attack at any point and make the bombs explode shooting them like they did for the first one, but they just don't.
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