...that everyone else saw years ago.
I haven't had "real" cable TV in a couple of decades, but this Christmas I added nexflix streaming to my media world. As a result I am speed-watching a bunch of stuff that isn't even close to current and I am looking for a self-serving place to post random stupid stuff.
Blowing through seasons in a short time frame really makes for a time-lapse-photo opportunity to recognize some oddities that might escape your attention if they were stretched out over a real viewing season.
I'll open with a couple:
Farscape. I watched all 88 episodes in order in under three weeks. I liked it, but I came away with the impression that every single character on it has a number of scenes that include a close-up, normally in half-profile, of a single tear coursing down their cheek. Honest, the crew filming it must have had short-hand for that take. There were few episodes without at least one, and there were more than a few episodes with several. Hell I wonder what the record number per episode would even be, probably half a dozen or more.
I said in another thread that it was like watching David Caruso taking off his sunglasses and tilting his head. They only had one move, and they used the living shit out of it.
The new BSG. I went through the first season and I am starting on the second. As with many of this genre, Farscape included, they seem to destroy more ships (Vipers and Raptors) than they could possibly be carrying. They blew up two Raptors in the season one finale alone. There is suspension of disbelief, which I will grant any show gobs of, then there is just plain old bad at math...and that bothers me.
But what really annoys me (so far) is this: Ok, so if Adama really believes that there are only 12 varieties of Cylons why doesn't somebody just take pictures of the 50k people, and visually scan for twins. Even if he doesn't believe, why not do it anyway. Once they posted the pictures of #2 and #5 it becomes painfully obvious that any twins are likely bad. WHY CAN'T THEY SEE THAT!!!
I haven't had "real" cable TV in a couple of decades, but this Christmas I added nexflix streaming to my media world. As a result I am speed-watching a bunch of stuff that isn't even close to current and I am looking for a self-serving place to post random stupid stuff.
Blowing through seasons in a short time frame really makes for a time-lapse-photo opportunity to recognize some oddities that might escape your attention if they were stretched out over a real viewing season.
I'll open with a couple:
Farscape. I watched all 88 episodes in order in under three weeks. I liked it, but I came away with the impression that every single character on it has a number of scenes that include a close-up, normally in half-profile, of a single tear coursing down their cheek. Honest, the crew filming it must have had short-hand for that take. There were few episodes without at least one, and there were more than a few episodes with several. Hell I wonder what the record number per episode would even be, probably half a dozen or more.
I said in another thread that it was like watching David Caruso taking off his sunglasses and tilting his head. They only had one move, and they used the living shit out of it.
The new BSG. I went through the first season and I am starting on the second. As with many of this genre, Farscape included, they seem to destroy more ships (Vipers and Raptors) than they could possibly be carrying. They blew up two Raptors in the season one finale alone. There is suspension of disbelief, which I will grant any show gobs of, then there is just plain old bad at math...and that bothers me.
But what really annoys me (so far) is this: Ok, so if Adama really believes that there are only 12 varieties of Cylons why doesn't somebody just take pictures of the 50k people, and visually scan for twins. Even if he doesn't believe, why not do it anyway. Once they posted the pictures of #2 and #5 it becomes painfully obvious that any twins are likely bad. WHY CAN'T THEY SEE THAT!!!
