Tenet simultaneously has too much exposition and also not enough exposition, which is quite the trick. Characters spend an absolute age standing about explaining things that should take about two sentences to get over to the audience (like how a Freeport works) but whole acres of motivation and relevant plot points…

Thanks for this - more widespread than I’d realized.

The short answer is, they’re not breathing. There isn’t an accumulation of excess nitrogen to bubble out into the bloodstream. 

SCUBA divers get the bends from breathing in pressurized air at depth where pressure is high. This high pressure results in higher concentrations of the air molecules being absorbed in each breath the diver takes. The air is literally more dense. It’s like the difference between taking a bite of angel food cake and a…

They don’t. They do have adaptations to mitigate it’s effect though.

They stretch before they exercise.

Mosasaurs didn’t avoid the bends - there’s fossil evidence of bone damage consistent with the bends in these animals.

Ideally, the same amount of nitrogen is dissolved in their blood the entire time of the dive. Since there would be no excess to form bubbles, bubbles won’t tend to form for the same reason they weren’t there in the first place.

They are not taking in additional air while underwater so they’re not adding extra nitrogen to dissolve into their bodies to cause issues when resurfacing.

You can get the bends free diving, but it’s a lot rarer than SCUBA. And I’d assume the animals are designed better for it than us.

This guy dinosaurs 

Came in just to say that. 

I mean, they let you believe it for like....the span of an episode.

“Pterodactyl or Pteranodon? The former is a Late Jurassic pterodactyloid about the size of a gull. The latter is a giant Late Cretaceous pterodactyloid larger than any living bird.”

SAAAAAAAAME

That’s my problem with their system and their refusal to give ratings information. We, as the audience, don’t actually know how well or poorly these shows are doing from a viewer standpoint. And all of these third-party “ratings” company don’t actually provide viewer data, but instead viewer impressions on social…

And then there’s shit like Another Life, which shouldn’t have gotten past the second script review but they spent money on it anyway.

Stranger Things raises it’s hand....

Yeah, but a lot of their content is stuff they’ve brought over from Europe or Asia. They’re branded as “Netflix” shows, but at most Netflix is a co-producer or a licensee. 

All the more reason to...not touch that.