The protagonist could, by riding in a time-traveling sphere. go back in time–exactly seven days into the past. The sphere was sent into the past by members of a scientific team who would then, out of the blue, get a call from the chrononaut seven days before his departure (am I making sense?). Then they’d all work together to stop whatever crisis had caused them to power up the time travel sphere in the first place.

Now I don’t think I caught the first couple of episodes of this show, so perhaps my plot hole was actually covered during that time, but here it is: how is it that every single time they sent the sphere into the past didn’t seem–to them–like the very first time they’d done so?

Holly: Yeah, I don’t personally like big plot holes. I can still enjoy the movie or book in the moment even when they’re there, but it generally spoils the long-term enjoyment for me. (I looked up that poem, by the way, since I wasn’t familiar with it. I definitely go for the horsing around reading but with a deliberate attempt on the part of the author to use words traditionally associated with abuse. Thanks for mentioning the poem–I enjoyed it.)

But, to answer your question, I think the author can leave a lot to the reader’s imagination, as long as there aren’t any huge plot errors (like those mentioned above). There’s this poem called “My Papa’s Waltz,” that could be talking about either a playful experience between father and child or an abusive scene between the two. The poet (I can’t remember his name right now) leaves it up to the reader to decide. Every class I’ve been in that has read that poem has a different view on it, some classes give you evidence of horsing around, and then other classes make you believe the father is beating the kid. I don’t know which it is, but I like not knowing. There are some things that are better left to the imagination, and there are also some things that should be explained. I think it depends on the story/poem/movie.

I also had lots of problems with how the woman survived, she mentioned being on a boat with others until someone turned, yet she doesn’t use the antiseptic, and seems to know where he lives.. perhaps she looked at his drivers license when she rescued him.

28 days later was another example, a bit better but still completely unrealistic. Birds regularly fly across the English Channel, anything that wiped out England would spread quickly unless 100,000 troops all stood on the edge of Europe shooting every bird. Probably ferocious rabid rats could swim across as well.

Dear God! It’s true, it’s so very, very true…

But along the same lines, I always wondered if the zombie plague (from anything with bite-transferable zombie-ism) could be carried by mosquitoes. If so, we’re all doomed.