I have pet peeves about how Florida is portrayed.
Me too, especially with Miami/South Florida-- one of my primary issues with CSI Miami (aside from the generally wooden performances) was that their one aerial shot of the cars traveling to or from a crime scene were all of the Julia Tuttle Causeway, which leads to/away from the beach. One would think there was only one way in and out of Miami. The Glades cracks me up because while they've made up a fictional small town that's supposed to be somewhere in Palm Beach County, they wreak a little bit of havoc with geography in terms of how much time it takes to get places. Burn Notice does the same (and they make up street names, too) but I give them both passes because they film locally and in the case of the Glades, at least, it's a local boy who created/writes the show, so I at least know it's a willful fictional choice rather than deliberate ignorance.
The Killing is the one that made me absolutely NUTS though, with their depiction of Seattle weather. Just doesn't thunderstorm around here, people. Certainly not every time it rains. Nor is the rain of the heavy deluge variety, as a general rule.
The Killing is the one that made me absolutely NUTS though, with their depiction of Seattle weather. Just doesn't thunderstorm around here, people. Certainly not every time it rains. Nor is the rain of the heavy deluge variety, as a general rule.
I'm thinking they wanted the dark, rainy atmosphere for that show because of the type of noirish story they were doing and chose Seattle because they heard it rains there and didn't worry about the specifics.
I remember and episode of Criminal Minds set in Providence and they had to go to 1st street, and I just had to laugh, because Providence is not a grid city and doesn't have street names that are numbered. And all the Leverage and Fringe people have already heard my rants about how they get things in Massachusetts wrong.
I'm thinking they wanted the dark, rainy atmosphere for that show because of the type of noirish story they were doing and chose Seattle because they heard it rains there and didn't worry about the specifics.
Yep. That pretty much would seem to sum it up, wouldn't it? The thing that made me the craziest, I think, outside of the thunderstorms, is how they'd go from a wide pan shot of the skyline (all clearly taken on the same day) that was very typically fall/winter Seattle: slightly overcast and cloudy, maybe there's a drizzle, but you can't tell because it's so light and then the next closeup shot, which was presumably moments later, it would be dark and stormy in an Bulwer-Lytton sort of way. ::head desk::
I try to be somewhat open-minded because God knows, writers of all stripes often take a huge amounts of creative license, but there's creative license and then there's just flat-out WRONG. (Which is why I keep pestering my NOLA peeps...)
WB ComicCon Game of Thrones video - I loved NC-W wearing Lena Headey's hat.
(And videoing the crowd.)
re noir atmostphere: lots of noir is set in L.A. clearly you don't need actual rain to be noir.
ETA: totally meant to link this blog post about the effective use of costumes in Game of Thrones.
The specific thing in Warehouse 13 that just did me in was
they go to investigate some strange stuff happening in a prison in Florida with a hurricane fast approaching. Turns out the prison is made of rock with quartz, which was left over materials from the quartz mine that the prison was built on. They even showed a picture of a mine from somewhere. A quartz mine. In Florida.
The worst show for things set in Florida was Silk Stalkings, if anyone remembers that. It was based in South Florida but shot in CA and they did nothing to disguise the fact. There were shots of rocky shorelines and cliffs all the time. The only plot line I really remember was one where high class prostitutes were being brought into the area and recruited from Tallahassee, the implication being Big Money is in Tallahassee. They even showed "Tallahassee" which looked more like South Florida than anything else they showed. Lots of sand and palm trees and huge expensive houses every where.
Silk Stalkings was fun, but terrible. I know exactly what you are talking about! "It's too hot to sleep!"
You forget how tragically bad USA original programming used to be. (Am I remembering that correctly? That it was a USA show first, then even they canceled it and it went into syndicated production?)
It was a CBS late-night show (“Crime Time After Prime Time!”) first, then it moved to USA.
Crime Time After Prime Time had all kinds of bad shows. Like the vigilante motorcycle riding judge. He tucked his hair up in a little not bun during the day as a judge.
