Re: OT - anybody here watching the TV pilot & series "Debris" ?
Dimensional Traveler <[email protected]>
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On 3/12/2021 6:41 PM, 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, someone has to hand out the episode writing assignments. And a series bible gives at least a 50% chance that the writers will remember the characters' names. Anything beyond that would be harmful to the writers' creativity. And their ability to turn scripts in on time. -- I like living in the suburbs of Sanity. I can commute there when I need to be serious or mature but otherwise I can do as I please.