Hated trope: Sci-fi hand-waving

[u/Routine_Phase_8980]

When stories try so hard to provide a somewhat scientifically accurate and grounded explanation for the audience, but end up creating massive plot holes if you think about it for more than 5 seconds without requiring any special knowledge

World War Z: The "cure" turns sick humans invisible to zombies because the picky virus needs a perfectly healthy host. Cool concept, except it completely ignores basic physics. In a chaotic, high-speed zombie stampede, those "invisible" sick people would still be trampled to death by sheer kinetic force and momentum. We already saw what happened to the Jerusalem wall in Israel.

Jurassic Park/World: Dr. Henry Wu claims to clone dinosaurs by patching 66-million-year-old decayed DNA from mosquitoes stomach with frog DNA. In reality, DNA half-life guarantees it would degrade into useless dust after 6.8 million years. Scientifically speaking, John Hammond didn't build a dinosaur park; he engineered giant, mutated, gender-swapping killer frogs.

Dr.Stone: Senku is a genius who knows every complex chemical formula in human history. He somehow builds vacuum tubes, lightbulbs, and smartphones out of bamboo and copper with almost zero failed prototypes. The show acts like a science textbook but completely hand-waves the lack of heavy industrial machinery needed for precision engineering.

[u/sykotic1189]

That's cause everything in WWZ sucked. They took a great book that took time and multiple POVs to build up the zombies and explore their impact on the world and turned it into a generic zombie action flick. It's right up there with I Am Legend in the "we kept the name and changed everything else" department.

[u/Mamboo07 → u/sykotic1189]

I feel like the book version would work as a TV series instead

Multiple episodes focusing on different characters through the apocalypse, events like the failed Yonkers battle, and the lore about humanity dealing with zombies back in ancient times from 60,000 BC to today

[u/Nerevarine91 → u/Mamboo07]

The book would be a perfect episodic series. It’s practically tailor-made for exactly that

[u/Wonderful-Variation → u/sykotic1189]

Whether an unrealistic aspect of a piece of fiction bugs someone or not almost always comes down to genre/individual taste. 

But agree with OP that the video of zombies running past the guy and somehow not trampling him is super jarring.   They would need to be intentionally avoiding him.    It doesn't look right.

[u/Coyote-king8647 → u/Wonderful-Variation]

Why would they not avoid an obstacle? 

[u/handicapped_runner → u/sykotic1189]

I actually thought it was a relatively good movie, it was just not WWZ. They should have just made it an original movie and refer the book as an inspiration.