Xander ,'Chosen'
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.
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.
Sometimes I wonder if they get things wrong on purpose, because they're often things that would be so easy to check.
ChiKat, they do that with LA and New York City all the time, too. TV and movies are equal opportunity geography offenders.
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.
As MST3K noted, a lot can be chalked up to "they just don't care."
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.
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?)
Well, to 90% of people watching a show, little geographical bleeps don't matter because they aren't familiar with the area, and doing it that way serves the look of the production or the budget or both. I think that's a good trade-off for the 10% of the viewers who are going to go "Hey, how'd they get from Weehauken to the Village in 20 minutes?"
Baltimore ... a romantic comedy type show
It would have to be about crabs.
Romance. Crabs. OK. It might not work.
Anyway. What is it going to take to get things off of the coasts?
Emily, I am whitefonting Star Wars because it makes me giggle helplessly. Every. darn. time.
NYC screw ups are fun. In the beginning of Men in Black Will Smith sprints fifty plus blocks from just outside Grand Central to the Guggenheim because, I guess, they wanted those two locations in the opening. It's goofy.
And I just saw the Sith preview. Damn that looks good. Dare I hope?