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Sun May 11 14:18:52 EDT 2014
If you want us to believe a car chase is happening in downtown Washington DC, you need to replace the road signs that say US-6 and US-322. Neither of those roads goes through Washington. Could be Superior Ave. in Cleveland? Granted, physically replacing the signs would be expensive - and confusing for any real-life visitors passing through town - but given the show's (Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) pervasive reliance on digital effects it would have been a minor thing for them to alter the signs. US-1 and US-50 go through DC; problem solved. (I'm not saying the scene looks like any street in DC that is both US-1 and US-50, but if you are going to nail the scene to a street with highway signs, then at least nail it to the correct city.) They took the trouble to give the police cars the DC paint job. (Or maybe they got some actual DC clunkers, since the cars were battered when the scene opened, and beyond totalled - demolished - by the end.)
There may be a lot of people in this country who don't read books, but we do read every glyph on the screen.
We are suspending our belief to accept all the gizmos and the improbable physics on the show. But you can't play with geography; the actual location of decades-old highways is not something you can dismiss.
There's no reason that scene needed to be in Washington, DC anyway (unless something's going to be revealed in the next episode). If a fugitive is evading capture, why not Cleveland? Problem solved Problem not even created.
Another show, from last night: Case of Conscience, episode Honor and Cowardice. This is an Italian show (subtitled) about a charismatic attorney. I haven't seen most of this episode yet, but it opened with a fishing boat at sea in a gale. The engine was failing, and a rescue helicopter was sent out. We've seen the boat bobbing about, and everyone on the boat and the 'copter is talking about the storm, but when the rescue team arrives and are lowered to the boat on a cable, the boat is no longer surging up and down in the waves, and the 'copter is not buffeted by gusts of wind - the guys are just lowered down in a heavy rain, but not swinging back and forth, nor getting slammed by the deck (or missing the boat entirely). In a storm bad enough to need an air-sea rescue, getting onto the boat would not have been easy or routine. The same for attaching the injured fishermen to the cable and hoisting them up.
Sunday 17:27
There's a lot of people out on bikes today. The weather is beautiful (a few clouds, 80°F/27°C); yesterday was rainy. I mowed the lawn this afternoon. I'm out on the deck in a hammock chair now. I'm going to watch the rest of Honor and Cowardice on the Kindle....
[This entry was originally posted as http://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/669181.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]
If you want us to believe a car chase is happening in downtown Washington DC, you need to replace the road signs that say US-6 and US-322. Neither of those roads goes through Washington. Could be Superior Ave. in Cleveland? Granted, physically replacing the signs would be expensive - and confusing for any real-life visitors passing through town - but given the show's (Marvel's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D.) pervasive reliance on digital effects it would have been a minor thing for them to alter the signs. US-1 and US-50 go through DC; problem solved. (I'm not saying the scene looks like any street in DC that is both US-1 and US-50, but if you are going to nail the scene to a street with highway signs, then at least nail it to the correct city.) They took the trouble to give the police cars the DC paint job. (Or maybe they got some actual DC clunkers, since the cars were battered when the scene opened, and beyond totalled - demolished - by the end.)
There may be a lot of people in this country who don't read books, but we do read every glyph on the screen.
We are suspending our belief to accept all the gizmos and the improbable physics on the show. But you can't play with geography; the actual location of decades-old highways is not something you can dismiss.
There's no reason that scene needed to be in Washington, DC anyway (unless something's going to be revealed in the next episode). If a fugitive is evading capture, why not Cleveland? Problem solved Problem not even created.
Another show, from last night: Case of Conscience, episode Honor and Cowardice. This is an Italian show (subtitled) about a charismatic attorney. I haven't seen most of this episode yet, but it opened with a fishing boat at sea in a gale. The engine was failing, and a rescue helicopter was sent out. We've seen the boat bobbing about, and everyone on the boat and the 'copter is talking about the storm, but when the rescue team arrives and are lowered to the boat on a cable, the boat is no longer surging up and down in the waves, and the 'copter is not buffeted by gusts of wind - the guys are just lowered down in a heavy rain, but not swinging back and forth, nor getting slammed by the deck (or missing the boat entirely). In a storm bad enough to need an air-sea rescue, getting onto the boat would not have been easy or routine. The same for attaching the injured fishermen to the cable and hoisting them up.
Sunday 17:27
There's a lot of people out on bikes today. The weather is beautiful (a few clouds, 80°F/27°C); yesterday was rainy. I mowed the lawn this afternoon. I'm out on the deck in a hammock chair now. I'm going to watch the rest of Honor and Cowardice on the Kindle....
[This entry was originally posted as http://syntonic-comma.dreamwidth.org/669181.html on Dreamwidth (where there are
comments).]