As MST3K noted, a lot can be chalked up to "they just don't care."
Fred: It's the pictures in my mind that are getting me. It's like being stuck in a really bad movie with those Clockwork Orange clampy things on my eyeballs. Wesley: Why imagine? Reality's disturbing enough.
'Shells'
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.
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"
§ 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?)
Scrappy - Apr 24, 2005 11:26:16 am PDT #8540 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
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?"
Gus - Apr 24, 2005 11:27:31 am PDT #8541 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
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?
Trudy Booth - Apr 24, 2005 11:27:52 am PDT #8542 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
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?
Trudy Booth - Apr 24, 2005 11:34:04 am PDT #8543 of 10001
Greece's financial crisis threatens to take down all of Western civilization - a civilization they themselves founded. A rather tragic irony - which is something they also invented. - Jon Stewart
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.
That's assuming to some extent that they're shooting in sequence though and, as I understand it, they so often don't. Day 26 I'm shooting Will jumping off the buss at Pershing Square. Day 118 we're up at the Guggenheim. If I'm not from NYC I probably don't realize how far away we are and if I'm not reading along I may not even realize its a sequentially geographically impossible scene.
Awww.... Boba Fette LOVES Vader. He just said "As you wish". You'd think he'd be getting some royalties on his DNA being the source of their entire damn army and would have stopped these pissant bounty gigs by now !
§ ita § - Apr 24, 2005 11:34:51 am PDT #8544 of 10001
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Note for files:
DX is a big old geek.
Gus - Apr 24, 2005 11:37:20 am PDT #8545 of 10001
Bag the crypto. Say what is on your mind.
Awww.... Boba Fette ...
Too many nerds. Must run for cover.
Scrappy - Apr 24, 2005 11:39:44 am PDT #8546 of 10001
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
We just got back from the Burbank Kiwanis car show. It was in Johnny Carson Park, which we get to by walking down Bob Hope Boulevard. I live in the oddest small town ever.