er bugs me for that reason, ita. They mess up the geography of Chicago all the time.
You guys had a riot? On account of me? A real riot?
Jayne ,'Jaynestown'
Natter 34: Freak With No Name
Off-topic discussion. Wanna talk about corsets, duct tape, or physics? This is the place. Detailed discussion of any current-season TV must be whitefonted.
ChiKat - Apr 24, 2005 11:15:01 am PDT #8525 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
Scrappy - Apr 24, 2005 11:16:02 am PDT #8526 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Homicide and The Wire do Baltimore well.
P.M. Marc - Apr 24, 2005 11:17:02 am PDT #8527 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Aww. Gray's Anatomy is set here? Pity it's a hospital show.
The Lower Mainland as stand in for all locations only really bothers me if it's a stand in for Seattle (but any stand in for Seattle will bug me). However, it amuses the hell out of me when it stands in for, oh, Kansas.
Narrator - Apr 24, 2005 11:17:21 am PDT #8528 of 10001
The evil is this way?
Gus, eventually they'll get around to CSI: Indianapolis.
Yep, except the state motto for Indiana is (or should be) "We Fear Change" so the techs will be using out-of-date technology.
§ ita § - Apr 24, 2005 11:17:33 am PDT #8529 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Even when they're in the location they're portraying, meta considerations often fuck with the geography (hell, I read people complaining that the Grey's Anatomy rain wasn't Seattle rain -- dude, it's just TV), but when you've not even gained the other bits of local flavour with any authenticity, it's like being smacked over the head.
Christ, they can't even get Smallville and Metropolis right.
msbelle - Apr 24, 2005 11:19:07 am PDT #8530 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
sara - WOOHOO!!!
that's all I got.
I caught up on TV Friday and yesterday and thought I had some stuff to talk about but can't remember it now. JoA was good. PGL continues to crack me up in the biggest trainwreck way. Why no new WaT this week?
Gus - Apr 24, 2005 11:19:19 am PDT #8531 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
I shudder to think of them writing Detroit on a weekly basis.
wrod. However, you make me think of the Baltimore shows (H:LOTS, The Wire) and that early WB thing Dawson's Creek.
They took place "out of town". eta: Or, what Robin said.
P.M. Marc - Apr 24, 2005 11:19:37 am PDT #8532 of 10001
So come, my friends, be not afraid/We are so lightly here/It is in love that we are made; In love we disappear
Even when they're in the location they're portraying, meta considerations often fuck with the geography
See: Say Anything, and the Amazing 30 Seconds by Car from Wallingford to Bell Square. (AKA, what ever Eastside commuter would kill for.)
ChiKat - Apr 24, 2005 11:20:23 am PDT #8533 of 10001
That man was going to shank me. Over an omelette. Two eggs and a slice of government cheese. Is that what my life is worth?
Even when they're in the location they're portraying, meta considerations often fuck with the geography
That's what bugs me about er. When they're on location and put 2 places next to each other that are really across town. And, Cook County hospital is not in the loop, and yet they insist on putting it there.
Emily - Apr 24, 2005 11:21:08 am PDT #8534 of 10001
"In the equation E = mc⬧, c⬧ is a pretty big honking number." - Scola
Sometimes I wonder if they get things wrong on purpose, because they're often things that would be so easy to check.