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Originally Posted by Halk
Something perhaps on a similar vein, which annoys me to no end...
When creating a fictional world (or using an existing one) there are 'rules' in place. It's common, and it's perfectly fine to re-establish, change or append these rules.
However it makes for an awful plot if you just change the rules right at the crunch.
Science fiction and fantasy are plagued by this. If it's not some new special power that got developed right before the end of the book it's some technobabble about the quantum flux nonsense that's thrown in to justify the impossible happening.
I'm willing to take the leap of faith when the scene for the book is created, but not 2 chapters from the end.
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Not a word, but a phrase:
Deus ex machina
Xenophon