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?)
This isn't a come-on. I'm in a very serious relationship with a landscape architect.
Oliver ,'Conviction (1)'
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.
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.
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.
Trudy Booth - Apr 24, 2005 11:41:14 am PDT #8547 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
Gus! I was snarking, I swear! Go read the whitefont!
Connie Neil - Apr 24, 2005 11:42:54 am PDT #8548 of 10001
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Nerd patrol checking in. I watched the big fight over the Death Star and was being intranced by listening to the music with the corresponding visuals for a change, instead of just listening to the soundtrack.
I was so pissed when Luke and Leia turned out to be brother and sister, I was all for LukNLeea4Eva! (joins Trudy in the inexplicable love of whitefonting things some people learned before they reached first grade [rotten kids, get offa my lawn])
Gosh, watching it all first run and schreeching about it with Amy and listening to people who'd just seen the movies say, "No, really. Vader and Luke!"