If a MacGuffin Location is one which "when reached doesn't have any significant impact on the plot", then doesn't that make the example of the opening paragraph, where Alice is trying to get to the location specifically in order to rescue Bob, a bad example?
If a MacGuffin Location is one which "when reached doesn't have any significant impact on the plot", then doesn't that make the example of the opening paragraph, where Alice is trying to get to the location specifically in order to rescue Bob, a bad example?