Board Thread:General Discussion/@comment-11469381-20141009021209/@comment-1982833-20141117003713

Gilgameshkun wrote: There are some potential plot holes (fridge logic, if you will) in Irma's story. The real interesting question is, how else did "Irma" maintain her cover as a spy? If she was April's best friend for an entire year, then wouldn't it have been likely April has visited her home, met her family, and such? Were they a real human family just as much in the dark about "Irma" as April was? Or were they other Kraang in suits? "Irma" didn't just have to be April's best friend to spy on her&mdash;her being there necessitated the appearance of an entire life, with school, friends, home, and all the little everyday life details "she" would have had to maintain.

I think there probably had to have been a real Irma, so that Kraang Prime could swap lives with her. But considering that, if it were a more realistic world, it's likely that the real Irma is long dead; beyond the usefulness of scanning her memories, they would have had no further use for her. Don't get me wrong&mdash;I'd like for her not to be dead; and this being a TV-Y7 show, there's relatively better likelihood she's not dead. But if she's alive, any number of things are possible. Personally, I would find it very ironic if they found the real Irma, but she and April had either never met or had never been friends.

Another possibility is, the writers are going to let the fridge logic be, and leave the questions unanswered and the plot holes ignored. Because even though this is a show that they know plenty of adults my age (in my mid-30s) are watching (what with all the really old easter eggs), it's likely that even more of the audience are preteens. And Nickelodeon may figure that preteens either won't notice plot holes like that, or won't care about them. If we can see the plot holes, I am sure that children can as well. Nick might leave them alone however Irma might reappear in a future episode.