ita - yeah, they made it clear it was in the past. The big news event in the pilot was the Deepwater Horizon spill.
Mal: There's plenty orders of mine that she didn't obey. Wash: Name one! Mal: She married you!
'War Stories'
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Sean K - Oct 04, 2012 3:02:48 pm PDT #4732 of 7329
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
Sean K - Oct 04, 2012 3:06:01 pm PDT #4733 of 7329
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
The gabby giffords episode was one I liked. The one that really made my eyes roll was the episode about killing bin laden. It was a big news day that day, but I never felt like it was the first moon landing, which was kind of how it played in the episode.
Sean K - Oct 04, 2012 5:26:43 pm PDT #4734 of 7329
You can't leave me to my own devices; my devices are Nap and Eat. -Zenkitty
tiggy, it should be amusing for you to watch West Wing and see a bunch of the bits you just saw on Newsroom translated into the White House.
Also, as I said on Facebook, I think Newsroom could be improved by the additions of Toby Ziegler, Josh Lyman, C.J. Cregg, and eventually Will Bailey, to the ACN staff.
Jessica - Oct 05, 2012 4:31:19 am PDT #4735 of 7329
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
It was a big news day that day, but I never felt like it was the first moon landing, which was kind of how it played in the episode.
I kind of wish I'd watched that one, because from where I work, it was very similar to the moon landing in terms of how the on-camera talent was expected to cover it.
(The difference being that with the moon landing they had a set of timed events to report which were known in advance, and so interviews to fill gaps were scheduled. With bin Laden, nobody knew when Obama was going to finally speak so they just vamped for two hours.)
[edit: The big difference from a viewer perspective is that, again, the moon landing was a scheduled event so everyone knew in advance to turn on the TV. Whereas if you weren't already watching CSI or checking Twitter, it was pretty easy to miss Obama's speech. But as far as the network news was concerned, it was a Really Big Deal And Everyone Was Watching.]
sumi - Oct 05, 2012 12:15:07 pm PDT #4736 of 7329
Art Crawl!!!
Rutger Hauer cast in True Blood.
§ ita § - Oct 05, 2012 12:56:35 pm PDT #4737 of 7329
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
That has quite the air of inevitability to it.
Vortex - Oct 05, 2012 5:28:37 pm PDT #4738 of 7329
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
Is that not a spoiler lite?
§ ita § - Oct 05, 2012 7:06:23 pm PDT #4739 of 7329
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Nope.
Vortex - Oct 05, 2012 9:00:09 pm PDT #4740 of 7329
"Cry havoc and let slip the boobs of war!" -- Miracleman
It hasn't been broadcast, has it? I may very well have missed it, I admit.
§ ita § - Oct 06, 2012 10:31:56 am PDT #4741 of 7329
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Casting news isn't a spoiler. I didn't click on the link, so I don't know if it has plot details or description of the character, but the statement "Rutger Hauer will be on True Blood" isn't a spoiler.