Re: OT - anybody here watching the TV pilot & series "Debris" ?
J. Clarke <[email protected]>
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On Sat, 13 Mar 2021 04:03:10 GMT, [email protected] (Dorothy J Heydt) wrote: >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. "Master-slave" in the context of electronic control systems has probably been around longer. But it is the 21st century and we can't be having that non-inclusive behavior.