Re: OT - anybody here watching the TV pilot & series "Debris" ?

On Sat, 13 Mar 2021 02:41:14 GMT, [email protected] (Dorothy J
Heydt) wrote:

>In article <[email protected]>,
>Dimensional Traveler  <[email protected]> wrote:
>>On 3/12/2021 5:24 PM, David Lesher wrote:
>>> a425couple <[email protected]> writes:
>>> 
>>>> On 3/11/2021 9:40 AM, David Lesher wrote:
>>>>> Watched the first 2 episodes via the NBC streaming app.
>>>>> I can't say I am enthralled with it. The overblown
>>>>> buddy aspect, the piled-on drama over her family, etc. don't
>>>>> help. I may watch next week's episode...but "may"....
>>>>>
>>>> Yeah.  I understand you.
>>>> I saw the 'pilot', and I've now seen about half
>>>> of the 2nd.  "may" is right.
>>> 
>>>> Total ridiculous,  they (some authority/supervisor)
>>>> tell him her father is somehow alive, while she is deeply
>>>> grieving him, but not tell her, and not want him to tell
>>>> her.....
>>>> WTF?
>>> 
>>> "We don't know how to write well, and/or our actors suck
>>> So
>>> Dredge up the old tropes, lay on in thick layers, let dry,"
>>> 
>>Its more likely to be "We can't write well" AND "Someone different 
>>writes each episode without knowing what anyone else is writing until we 
>>see it on TV".  Not only does the production NOT care about continuity, 
>>their methods are actively _hostile_ to continuity.
>
>Oh, dear.  Don't they have a showrunner?  Don't they have a
>"bible"?

Probably never got around to it--still arguing over whether to call it
a "Bible" or "Q'uran" or a "Veda" or a "Das Kapital"--I mean we
wouldn't want to offend anybody now would we?