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

On Sat, 13 Mar 2021 21:34:20 GMT, [email protected] (Dorothy J
Heydt) wrote:

>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..."

Good question--I'll have to ask the Unix people.

I think that I have a little bit different perspective on some matters
than some of the others in the newsgroup.  I work for a large
corporation whose upper management is trying very hard to be "woke".
Calling something a "bible" would be a big discussion and likely not
be allowed unless the artifact in question was in fact a commercially
published book with that title, and then the question would be raised
of whether posessing such a thing on company property was
work-appropriate.

This may seem like a conspiracy theory or the ravings of a lunatic,
but this sort of discussion really does go on in corporate America.