thx all for the comments! stuck in long long scrīpt meetings these couple days - it really is extremely difficult to balance the needs of logic/suspense/story telling/visuals/commercial needs/originality in one scrīpt. extremely easy to criticize and poke holes in plots... but thinking of alternative possibilities is never easy. the solutions are usually either 1) too far fetched and unbelievable 2) cliche and everyone could see it coming 3) could make sense but then a lot of other aspects of the scrīpt need to be fixed accordingly: which creates a loop back to the issue (fixing other parts is as hard as fixing the original problem). randomly reminds me of my forays into comp sci and i would pull my hair out over multiple recursion.