Writers getting details wrong...

Writing material that is going to be published isn't easy:  You're putting material out there for a world full of chuckle-head bloggers (like me) to nit-pick the smallest aspects of what you're created.  Heck....I feel their pain.  I've published a few articles in scholarly journals in my professional life and in my avocation I always have to be careful when reviewing comics at Weeklycomicbookreview.com for fear that I'll screw up some detail of Age of Apocalypse or the Clone Saga and have some rage encrusted troll attack me in the comments section.  So, I get it.

But, one thing I just can't forgive in a writer are those who purposely include details in their script but then get the details wrong.  All of us have those little areas where we know a hell of a lot.  So, anytime an writer decides he wants to fling around specific terms like the type of engine found in a particular car, scientific details, etc. they do so at their peril because someone reading the material is an expert on that subject.  And, when they screw up those details, especially in a fictional work that is meant to be anchored in reality, it pops the whole bubble.  We, the reader, are supposed to be suspending disbelief and letting the story flow over us: "This stuff could really happen!"  But, then these factual FUBARs arise and suddenly the suspension of disbelief is gone and the reader is on Wikipedia checking your facts instead of reading the story.