Picking Nits
The war timeline, medical equipment, food-poisoning symptoms, speed of onset, storage of sick passengers, and proposed Lake Michigan diversion are questioned.
In the discussion (6)
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- Ted’s age and conflicting wartime flashbacks make his war history unclear in a 1980 setting.
- The tube pulled from the sick girl is questioned because its removal immediately causes convulsions.
- The poisoned fish should cause vomiting or diarrhea rather than sedation.
- The group argues the fish symptoms would not happen that fast.
- The group asks where all the incapacitated passengers were placed.
- Kramer’s immediate proposal to divert the airplane into Lake Michigan is criticized for risking innocent people.