Re: OT - anybody here watching the TV pilot & series "Debris" ?
Paul S Person <[email protected]>
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On Sat, 13 Mar 2021 00:38:46 -0500, J. Clarke <[email protected]> wrote: >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. Well, /that/ was totally irrelevant. But true. I think "client/server" is still safe ... -- "I begin to envy Petronius." "I have envied him long since."