There is NOTHING that you are missing <| sep |> Yeah . The You Build It We Skate it thing is pretty cool though . They ' re all kind of goobers but we . <| sep |> Ahhh , the classic conservative approach to things . <| sep |> Welcome to being a pede . Where our opinions make us mentally ill and they just get deleted anyway . <| sep |> Plot holes sink the sturdiest themes . Don Quixote is riddled with mistakes in continuity some from printing errors , others from Cervantes himself and it is widely considered to be the world ' s best novel . Indeed , think of plot as steel girders . Does anyone visit buildings to see the steel girders ? No ! Plot is an excuse for theme . The excuse must generally be there , but it ' s not nearly as important as the thing it ' s excusing . And don ' t forget my point is that binding magic to theme prevents plot holes . Not that you should have them . It is unreasonable to assume that readers will not ask wait a minute , he solved a similar problem with magic ten pages ago , whats the big fuss now ? I was talking about the prevalence of magic whether the reader assumes similar supernaturalness is possible , which is what I thought you were talking about . I would . I doubt it . And if you would you ' re the exception . People have for all recorded history accepted stories that , if you actually applied them to the real world , would make little sense . This is because internally plausible is completely different to plausible . For example wolves can speak in Little Red Riding Hood ! Surely there are vast consequences to the presence of these sentient wolves in terms of culture and history and politics and but nobody comments on it . Nobody thinks to comment on it .