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

In article <[email protected]>,
J. Clarke  <[email protected]> wrote:
>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?

"bible" with a lower-case b has been the standard jargon for the
background (if any) and continuity in a TV series *at least*
since 1966, when Bjo Trimble, Tim Courtney, and I were doing Save
Star Trek.

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