Real life has plot holes

[Hydra009]

Just for fun, imagine world history as one loooonnnnnng movie or TV show.  What are its plot holes?

(Plot holes are events that aren't consistent with - or even contradict - the established logic of the show)

The show started out really slow, with just slight changes from one season to the next.  Then all of a sudden, the author just creates all these previously unseen lands and there's this huge rush to get there.  And this "New World" is all we ever see for a few seasons.  But during those seasons, pretty much everything in the world has changed drastically.  People are moving all over the place, sub-plots are bumping into each other, etc.  What gives?

And the last few seasons have really changed the Germans.  They were superb villains, and featured prominently in two season finales, but they did a complete 180 offscreen and hardly get any screentime anymore.

And speaking of villains, there's some serious villain decay going on.  Before, there used to be this huge and impressive rogue's gallery, but most of them either got killed off or made peace with everyone else.  Now there's just a few random nuts that are hard to take seriously.  Meanwhile, there's nuts on the inside who cause a lot of problems but no one ever seems to notice.  And everything's going crapsack while simultaneously going 20 minutes into the future (when they have the budget for that).  There's this huge leaked Space part of the plot that we're not getting to because the plot is dragging so hard right now!  This whole thing is turning out like Lost.

[Plu]

And this "New World" is all we ever see for a few seasons.

You're assuming this show is made by Hollywood? :P
The "new world" doesn't really have that much interesting happen in it the first time, you´d miss out on a lot of important events in European history. Not to mention that your piece entirely skips over the Orient (and others) and their extremely long and rich history.

It'd have to be more a show with dozens of stories going on at once, most of them with the main characters never meeting one another.

[stromboli]

I interpret plot holes to mean missing information and also making assumptions based on wrong data or misinformation. That is why we have conspiracy theories. I for one don't believe in UFOs or all of the so-called Hitler/Nazi conspiracies, but they exist, based on partial information. Likewise The deaths of the Romanovs in Russia, a still largely unresolved event. Stuff like that. You can add secret actions taken by governments that were never revealed as well.

And like Plu pointed out, Western literature and history is very lacking in Eastern history and events. I never knew that China built the largest sailing ships in history until recently, for example. Lots of shit we don't know.

[AllPurposeAtheist]

I'm still pissed about that huge suitcase full of cash I was supposed to find. Talk about a plot hole. :x

[Jason78]

I don't really think that the writers properly know how to tie up their plot arcs.

What was that whole roman empire thing about?  It went on for dozens of seasons, had some really great script writing, and then just kinda fizzled out.

Seems to suffer from Reality Is Unrealistic a lot.