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?
I get confused. I remember everything. I remember too much, and... some of it's made up, and... some of it can't be quantified, and... there's secrets.
River ,'Safe'
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.
msbelle - Apr 24, 2005 11:19:07 am PDT #8530 of 10001
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
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.
Scrappy - Apr 24, 2005 11:22:06 am PDT #8535 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
ChiKat, they do that with LA and New York City all the time, too. TV and movies are equal opportunity geography offenders.
§ ita § - Apr 24, 2005 11:22:20 am PDT #8536 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Baltimore seems to have a nice location thing going. Not huge, but I wonder if it'd handle a romantic comedy type show, you know...
WB seems to film outside of LA a reasonable amount -- One Tree Hill is another one filmed in the "flyover" states.
In addition to not having local infrastructures, I think it was (but may be decreasingly so, I'm not sure) hard to get people to spend so much of their time in other places. I'd imagine the strain of Hawaii filming on your social world, not to mention family and kids, isn't inconsiderable.
Theodosia - Apr 24, 2005 11:23:16 am PDT #8537 of 10001
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
As MST3K noted, a lot can be chalked up to "they just don't care."
§ ita § - Apr 24, 2005 11:24:24 am PDT #8538 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
I wonder if they get things wrong on purpose, because they're often things that would be so easy to check.
I don't think it's on purpose -- I think it's just not important. I mean, if they're on location, they damned well know what it takes to get from point A to B. But putting that into the text may be more bother than it's worth.
So they're not unaware, they're not setting out to do it wrong, it's just something they leave by the wayside as they put the story together.
Which reminds me -- just saw The Interpreter. I don't know enough about NY to say if it was accurate, but damn, was that ever a NY movie. Even without the UN bits. It just felt very there.
DXMachina - Apr 24, 2005 11:25:09 am PDT #8539 of 10001
You always do this. We get tipsy, and you take advantage of my love of the scientific method.
I was thinking about this while watching Numb3rs the other day. The place where they were searching for the bomb was exactly the same place Don circled on the map. (I used Google's satellite map to check...)
(What?)