Spike ,'The Cautionary Tale of Numero Cinco'
Discussion of the Mutant Enemy series, Firefly, the ensuing movie Serenity, and other projects in that universe. Like the other show threads, anything broadcast in the US is fine; spoilers are verboten and will be deleted if found.
I suppose each career has to suspend their disbelief for any move or TV show that depicts something in their industry, or geography.
Or hobbies. Since becoming a really avid swing dancer, dancing, and especially swing dancing, scenes are SO WEAK. (Seriously! He's not even leading! You can't do that with someone you've never danced with before! And etc.)
Oh, and - Hey! Long time no see everybody!
Oh, and yes, I know the landscape was all wrong for New England, and it bothered the historical nitpicker part of me. But I was so geeked out to see southeastern forest! And waterfalls! And rivers, and rocks, and I've actually walked that cliff path where Uncas and Alice met their doom! that the geekery sort of overcame the historical protest.
FWIW, my mother - who grew up in upstate New York, with roots so deep there that parts of our family tree get a mention in Drums Along the Mohawk - adored LotM. She gushed about how it looked like home. So while they got the flora wrong, they must have gotten the shape of the land right. It was a bubble-burster to her when I told her it was filmed elsewhere. She was also bothered by the detail of the battle scenes: her however-many-greats-is-seven-generations-back grandmother survived being scalped. I looked at those scenes and thought, "Huh. Yeah, that isn't exactly a mortal wound, is it?"
At least the love-it/hate-it The Fountain got CPR right. These things mean something to me.That IS important. People who have not taken classes will do what they have seen on tv. Plus when I was watching "The Body" I had this whole "Lock those elbows, Buffy. Oh wait - slayer strength, maybe not." internal dialogue taking me out of the moment.
what they do in that show is science fiction, not science.
But it's fun science fiction! And DB! Almost nekkid! ::drools a little::
I guess since a lot of movies aren't set in WI and I'm enough unfamiliar with other areas of the country (driving through once doesn't count) I don't get wierded out that the flora/fauna (dolphins are dolphins to me) aren't quite right. In fact, Madison has often been substituted for other places, particularly our capital building for the one in DC. They changed the setting for "Mad City" to a fictional town in CA because one of the actors didn't have the time to spend shooting a movie on location here. And, like Bev, old TV shows get a pass from me because I enjoyed that at a point in time when I sure as heck wouldn't have known the difference. I'm a very undemanding viewer, just give me a good storyline and good acting, I'll overlook anything else.
I am twitchy about things set in Atlanta, because they almost never get it right. I can't watch The Closer, because Kyra Sedgwick is using the worst "Southern" accent I have ever heard. I'm always irritated when they show newspaper headlines, because they're never anything like a real newspaper headline. I've written thousands of headlines, and I'd be happy to write headlines for television shows for a minimal amount of money, just to save me the aggravation.
I watched about fifteen minutes of "The Closer" once and had to turn off the tv. That accent is awful. (Also, I hated the character.)
Romania is supposed to look kinda like the US looked then.
In Bill Bryson's "I'm a Stranger Here Myself," he goes to the local history museum in Dartmouth (where he lives) and sees photos from the mid- to late-19th century that showed the area around Dartmouth was all farmland. Most of these farms were abandoned soon after those photos were taken and the farmers moved west to easier-to-plow lands. The land is now mostly forest; he says how you can go for a walk and stumble across a crumbling barn in the middle of the woods, and also get lost for weeks.
So some areas might be less cultivated now than they were 150 years ago.
I am rtwitchy about things set in theatre-- and it makes me extra mad because aren't these people in the entertainment industry? I am sure that at least some of the people involved in, say, High School Musical were IN a high school musical, but they still have people working on and building sets and costumes, on-stage, after school BEFORE the show is cast and people trying out for leads only in pairs-- WTF? And last night on Cold Case the whole solving of the murder depended on the music director/rehearsal pianist running the sound board, which seems very unusual to me, as I would think he would be conducting the orchestra/pit band/whatever-- and haveing these really extensive sound checks with him alone in the booth, with no stage manager or light board op, able to overhear, accidently, everything being said on the microphones when they weren't being broadcast over the stage.
Grrr.
I am rtwitchy about things set in theatre
Eh. I always just presume they're going for whatever shorthand will say "theatre" to a general TV audience.
Alaska stuff definitely makes me twitchy. Unfortunately, movies actually shot in Alaska tend to be either a) ancient and hard to find or b) crap. I fully allow that it is expensive here, though. And frankly, for movies or shows set in Alaska but shot elsewhere, it's the lack of research that bugs me more than the incorrect scenery. I mean, a bus to the Alaskan riviera.* Puh-lease.
Eh. I always just presume they're going for whatever shorthand will say "theatre" to a general TV audience.
I know, I know. I guess I am glad I am not a police officer or health care professional, as they are more often portrayed on TV.