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

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

Better than ignoring it.

I think.

-- 
Dorothy J. Heydt
Vallejo, California
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