NY in the 70s isn't slightly depressing. Manchester had a feeling of no hope. All apologies to Mancunians.
I go online sometimes, but everyone's spelling is really bad. It's... depressing.
Tara ,'Get It Done'
Procedurals 1: Anything You Say Can and Will Be Used Against You.
This thread is for procedural TV, shows where the primary idea is to figure out the case. [NAFDA]
§ ita § - Oct 24, 2008 10:43:29 am PDT #1985 of 11831
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Ailleann - Oct 24, 2008 10:46:28 am PDT #1986 of 11831
vanguard of the socialist Hollywood liberal homosexualist agenda
It works for other reasons but I think a rustbelt city like Pittsburgh or Detroit would have been a better choice.
I think this change would have kept me watching the American version. It being set in NYC really makes me want to nit-pick the resources available in 1973.
Frankenbuddha - Oct 24, 2008 10:54:51 am PDT #1987 of 11831
"We are the Goon Squad and we're coming to town...Beep! Beep!" - David Bowie, "Fashion"
NY in the 70s isn't slightly depressing. Manchester had a feeling of no hope.
NY in the 70s was pretty damn depressing, unless you were a Yankees fan. However, it was not, and never will be, an industrial city. None of the buroughs is really that type of city, let alone Manhattan.
erikaj - Oct 24, 2008 10:55:54 am PDT #1988 of 11831
Always Anti-fascist!
Or maybe they could've created a composite...like Hill Street.Which is Chicayorkadelphiaburgh. "Rescue Me" writes better about the towers anyway. Of course, Baltimore is industrial, but they made that show already. It would be fun to me to read the city fathers wigging about their image when another cop show comes to town. Scranton, but only if John Krasinski shows up once a season to make faces in the camera.
§ ita § - Oct 24, 2008 11:04:49 am PDT #1989 of 11831
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
NY in the 70s was pretty damn depressing
Okay, let me retract that. It's not been played depressing, if you don't count the towers reminder--and that's not a 70s thing.
Scrappy - Oct 24, 2008 11:12:18 am PDT #1990 of 11831
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
I was in NYV in '76 and it was BAD. Like hookers giving blow jobs in Subway tunnels bad. Not enough cops and too many junkies (except midtown) bad. Garbage and grafitti everywhere bad.
erikaj - Oct 24, 2008 11:24:57 am PDT #1991 of 11831
Always Anti-fascist!
Cool! (/crime show junkie) I know that stuff is really sad, honest. But it gives me narratively wet panties. Always has, too. How come I never talked about that in therapy?
Jesse - Oct 24, 2008 4:31:20 pm PDT #1992 of 11831
Sometimes I trip on how happy we could be.
Yeah, 70s NYC should be pretty depressing. [link]
I haven't watched any of the US LOM yet -- should I just jettison it?
Barb - Oct 24, 2008 4:50:49 pm PDT #1993 of 11831
“Not dead yet!”
The character on LoM that's making me crazy is Michael Imperioli's. They're going to have to do something with him that's not his porn 'stache over emoting Teh Big Anger! He comes off as such an incompetent, childish boob, that I can't imagine he's even out of uniform, let alone was being considered for second grade.
Juliebird - Oct 24, 2008 5:15:19 pm PDT #1994 of 11831
I am the fly who dreams of the spider
They just killed Rawls!!!
I don't know how I feel about that.
I mean, I'm definitely sad, but I might also be disgusted even further with Life.
And not just for the character death (of one very cool character who bookended the first season, and also, Michael Cudlitz) but for what I think is the first instance of active gooooooore on a show that for the most part is rather PG and artsy with it's death.