Talk:Bodyguard of Lies/@comment-138.237.109.81-20150225143532/@comment-26131697-20150225145936

It's more down to shoddy foreward planning and plot outlining by the writers. These are the kinds of things to explore before a story is written, looking at the credibility of things, if the story is written around the science (good story), or science written around the story (bad story if it's not a total fantasy world). So I think the glaringly obvious is just sort of skirted around or ignored by the writers by choosing not to make it part of the later story.

At the first draft stage, the writers should go back and look at each element to see if they fit together. I don't think the writers draft it in any more than the most rudimentary way and when something set up in an earlier episode contradicts something later, it's just ignored with focus put back on the lead characters getting into some kind of "will they make it through" story that's all smoke and mirrors really.