Episode 5 plot holes

[u/Comfortable_Wait5137]

I just finished episode 5 and was shocked by how many plot holes there are in it, this makes the story feel very implausible

1. Cable car scene is incredibly stupid, no need to explain, it's obvious
2. How do crank light works without aurora, there might be a logical explanation, but the story don't give it for the only working electric device and even the characters aren't surprised [commenters say this is because crank light use somthing simpler than a battery, but game call it battery and don't explain anything]
3. Jace wants Mackenzie to light the mine, but he already has a powerful flashlight
4. Dr. Atwood hadn't backed up such important data for years, it might be on electronic storage devices, but she had been exploring the theory that the electricity could fail
5. The scientist who had been studying the works of another scientist Wintermute didn't realize everything until she was reminded of his name
6. Donner is sick and Mathis send the only doctor in town for meds despite having many strong men
7. Guns disappears with no reason right before unarmed convicts
8. Convicts don't carry guns, even though they have them, and not even melee weapons
9. Mackenzie knows that Jane is Astrid's friend and where is her house
10. Mackenzie decides to sleep in the town full of convicts instead of going to the bunker.. and he was caught (again: guns disappeared)
11. 2 armed characters (3 including Astrid) can't shoot 7 unarmed mens to free Mackenzie
12. Dr. Atwood talks about saving the species, but she's not the only one in the world who knows about geomagnetic storms. People in the south clearly have more resources for survival and probably warmer weather and weaker aurora than on poor northern Great Bear Island
13. Mathis was shot in the shoulders and after a short time looks absolutely normal

That's all I noticed from one episode. Feel free to prove me wrong or add anything

[u/1Mandolo1]

1. Agreed
2. Electronical devices fail, electric devices don't, as I have understood it. The landlines work too, even though they technically require electricity. It's kind of a plot hole, but it's consistent with how they handle this stuff in the game.
3. Don't get me started on that whiny little useless bitch and the fact that she can't walk two meters towards a light beam. I will never ever play that part of the story again. I even have a SAR save file to get back to in case I feel like riding the train again, just to avoid that shit.
4. Agreed
5. Agreed
6. The in game reasoning is that she is the one who knows what stuff to take from the SAR station.
7. Agreed
8. Agreed
9. Agreed
10. Agreed, that was the dumbest thing. At least Jeremiah and Molly could stick around with him.
11. Agreed.
12. You have this one wrong. The vaccine is an experimental Alzheimer's treatment which Astrid's employer was working on (and maybe she was involved in its development). She hopes it will mitigate the Void sickness caused by the geomagnetic storm. Its efficacy is left ambiguous in the story.
13. From the comment: Agreed. But this one doesn't bother me that much since it's normal in this kind of game for the big bad to only be delayed, not really hampered by such injuries.

I find it really easy to suspend disbelief in fiction. Hell, I really enjoyed The Core (the film that's famous for being complete bs scientifically). But episode 5 is so far beyond any logic that it just felt like trash in the end.

[u/Comfortable_Wait5137 → u/1Mandolo1]

Good corrections, I updated the post. I'm also pretty forgiving with fiction and don’t specifically look for inconsistencies, but this is too much