Adaptation-Induced Plothole: Difference between revisions

** The catastrophic Joe Don Baker vehicle ''[[Mitchell]]'' was 97 minutes long, but was cut down to 70-75 minutes. One of the things cut out was the death of John Saxon's character Mr. Deaney, one of the film's primary antagonists. This prompts Joel to rather unfairly riff, "Wasn't John Saxon in this movie?"

** This was actually averted in ''Sidehackers''. One of the scene that had to cut out due to content involved the [[Disposable Woman|hero's girlfriend]] being [[Stuffed in The Fridge|brutally gang raped by the antagonist and his lackeys]], ultimately ending in her death. In order to explain why the main heroine suddenly disappears halfway through the film, one of the bots makes the following remark.

** [[The Movie]] also cuts some exposition from ''[[This Island Earth]]''.

* The TV adaptation of ''[[Discworld/Going Postal|Going Postal]]'' skips the subplot about what happened to the previous postmasters by revealing they were killed by Reacher Gilt's banshee assassin. However, the only reason the Post Office is ''standing'' in the book is that Gilt doesn't see it as a threat; as soon as he does, he doesn't mess around killing postmasters, he burns the place to the ground. In addition, a rearrangement of scenes means that TV Gilt has to {{spoiler|kill Horsefry}} personally, when the man is visiting his office, rather than employing the hard-to-track Mr Gryle to swoop down and {{spoiler|kill him in his own home}}. Despite the TV version retaining Ankh-Morpork's capable and determined Watch (and its bloodhound-like werewolf), this crime apparently goes unsolved.