Do you ever watch a show and burst out laughing at how incorrectly they represented a field? In a procedural I put on as background noise today, the investigator asked a prof if any of her students might harbour anti-tech views.
Her reply?
"I'm a post-modernist. In my area of study technological inventions are often viewed as art objects."
🤣 5 bucks says the writer of this script didn't even bother to look up post-modern lit and its dominant themes.
What's the best groaner you've seen?
Oof. FBI are definitely in the top tier for misrepresented labour on TV!
@MLClark Continuity errors and anachronisms are my favourites. Like using a piece of tech which simply didn't exist in the time of the story.
But as a musician, the real groaners are when actors have to mime playing an instrument they don't know how to play in real life 🤣🤣
YES! Sometimes just shooting from a different angle, so we don't even see the hands mashing at a sax or the piano, is sooo much better than making viewers suffer through the actors miming. 🤣
@MLClark Any of the CSI shows. One of my favorite examples is CSI Miami, the character played by Emily Procter comes striding in with her skin tight white pants and stiletto heels, kneels on one knee with her long hair loose and hanging down as she's looking at the body. Some cop or something comes in and says something to her and she flips her hair around and says, "Wait outside, you're messing up my crime scene!" I howled! 🤣
They wear rubber gloves though lol.
😅 ALL THE LOOSE HAIR. It is wild how dolled up those investigators are, no?
@MLClark And the heels!
I saw a preview from one show where the female cop or FBI or whatever she was pulled out a gun and had to chase a bad guy while she was (for some reason) wearing high heels and a towel. But whoever the actress (or stuntwoman) was, they were pretty amazing at running in heels!
@MLClark I can't think of any specific instances, but my wife JJ used to get upset when the plot had a librarian showing someone's borrowing records without a second thought. The library she worked at had a written policy that a court order was required in such circumstances. I can say as a bookseller I would probably demand the same.
Oh my yes! Great example. Information comes all too easily in such shows from a lot of public services with very rigid policies for such things.
@MLClark Literally any construction site. 😆
I was actually surprised by one old
movie a long time ago...
They got it EXACTLY right!
I was blown away!
Remember the movie: "Das Boat"
about the German U-Boat?
They were on ocean floor, dead
in the water after being nearly sunk
by depth charges.
They showed the Chief Engineer
had the MAK - main engine, torn apart & he was scrapping a bearing,
by hand (a lost art) & he was doing it exactly right!
I know, 'cause
I did it on the same exact engine all
the time 🏴☠️
@MLClark Watching any show pre-2010 talk about the Internet. Or computing in general.
@MLClark FBI on CBS. Every other week there is a bomb threat, and there is never enough time to wait for the bomb squad so the main characters handle it by cutting some random wire.