Picking Nits
Character ages; garage opener; filthy apartment; one-sided friendship; ethical surgeon; insufficient Seattle talk; accident reaction
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- The characters seem around thirty while presented as twenty-three to twenty-five, an age mismatch that affected early understanding.
- Giving a near-stranger a garage opener as he supposedly leaves for Spain is odd; having a spare explains access but not the trust.
- Steve’s apartment deteriorates implausibly into a food-covered hoard, making Linda’s willingness to have sex there especially unconvincing.
- Linda dominates conversations with Ruth without asking about her life, making the friendship feel one-sided.
- The compassionate plastic surgeon is considered implausible compared with a perceived industry eagerness to sell procedures.
- More ordinary coffee-shop talk about Seattle bands or the Sonics would root the friends in the city; X-Man’s existing mention is acknowledged but considered insufficient.
- The couple’s severe retreat after the accident seems abrupt; the defense is that the collision breaks their dream state and exposes how unprepared they are.