Yeah like Dante's Peak's pyroclastic flow! Check Mount St Helen for the real world!

Ya know, even well made films seem to depend on these absurdities. If we see these hiccups for what they are, why don't the writers see them too? Could there be a sort of cultural mythology about interactive events? Something which, when we examine it, we see as silly but if we take it in as part of a broader picture, part of the entertainment, we don't notice it? like slang which we can usually understand because of context and jargon which is less understandable because we also don't know the context.

Caught up in the story as we sometimes are, do we really notice these things or do we only "see" them upon reflection? Oh not the really clumsy stuff like having twenty rounds in a "six shooter" but some of the more subtle aspects?

(It is a very cold and windy Saturday here in Missouri and I'm in the mood to "muse".)

CB