I'm watching this old House that I've seen before, and I CANNOT get past the fact that House and Stacy get a hotel room in the airport because their flight from BALTIMORE got cancelled. She can drive a car, right? They're like two hours from home.
And I myself will be wearing pink taffeta as chenille would not go with my complexion.
Giles ,'Touched'
Natter 45: Smooth as Billy Dee Williams.
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.
Jesse - Jul 06, 2006 2:22:32 pm PDT #5654 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
erikaj - Jul 06, 2006 2:26:26 pm PDT #5655 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
Yeah...I thought that was odd, but my geography is not worth dick.
msbelle - Jul 06, 2006 2:28:06 pm PDT #5656 of 10002
I remember the crazy days. 500 posts an hour. Nubmer! Natgbsb
tempted to post something about the ever declining value of dick.....
erikaj - Jul 06, 2006 2:29:49 pm PDT #5657 of 10002
Always Anti-fascist!
I guess I would deserve it.
Jesse - Jul 06, 2006 2:32:27 pm PDT #5658 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I have waited stupid amounts of time for delayed short flights, but I think the worst one was connecting on somewhere, and I don't drive. But still!
§ ita § - Jul 06, 2006 2:33:38 pm PDT #5659 of 10002
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Ever declining? The market has been saturated for donkey's years.
Jesse - Jul 06, 2006 2:34:20 pm PDT #5660 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Speaking of driving, we're getting information about candidates for my boss at work, and one of them said in her pre-interview questionaire or whatever that she would learn to drive if she got the job! Fascinating. I actually don't think it would be necessary, but she was working on the assumption that it would.
Jessica - Jul 06, 2006 2:41:15 pm PDT #5661 of 10002
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
I remember thinking that was weird too, but wasn't the flight delayed because of bad weather? Maybe neither of them are very good snow drivers...
Kristen - Jul 06, 2006 2:46:21 pm PDT #5662 of 10002
This is funny because I never watched House and, yet, I think I know the episode you're talking about because the writer of the ep discussed it in LJ and said:
Going by plane was more problematical, but I could see them taking a commuter flight out of some small airport around Princeton. (There is indeed a small commuter airport near Princeton, but it doesn't go to Baltimore; our airports on both ends were strictly imaginary.) I say "problematical" because I'm from New Jersey, and my first impulse would be to take the train. I discounted automobile, because the traffic delays would make it impractical, and no business organization would want to send two people whose hourly wages verge on astronomical on a long, tiring car ride -- it would be a false economy, and would hardly leave your lawyer fresh as a daisy and ready to argue. In the end, train vs. plane seemed a toss-up; I've seen plenty of people take short business flights, so the idea didn't shock me, and though weather can keep a train station isolated as well as an airport, it would be harder for a mass audience to grasp intuitively.
Jesse - Jul 06, 2006 2:48:13 pm PDT #5663 of 10002
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
I do understand that the Needs of the Drama are different than the needs of real life, but still. I think I just would have made the fake location farther and/or more awkwardly placed.