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

In article <[email protected]>,
Paul S Person  <[email protected]> wrote:
>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 don't know if UNIX programmers talk about a "parent" program
spawning a "child" program, and stuff happens and then "the child
dies..."

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