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Accuracy never really bothered me. They're just hollywood-types. It can be fun to see technology through their myopic eyes. Its the inconsistency that gets me.
by noonespecial 16y ago
Accuracy never really bothered me. They're just hollywood-types. It can be fun to see technology through their myopic eyes. Its the inconsistency that gets me. The transporters have wildly different operating modes and capabilities depending on the week, problems that nearly destroy the ship in some episodes are solved by three keypresses, rerouting this to that (often by their 15 year old boy-mascot) in others.
Dammit Jim, pick some damn rules and stick to them. Constraints make good drama. I doesn't count if the plot can be resolved at any time by some idiot in a Jefferies tube.
I used to hold up Star Wars as an example of good consistency. Then Ep. 1 came out. My wife asked me (5 minutes into the damn movie) why the Jedi bothered to swing their light sabers at the robots if they could just wave their hands at all of them and knock them over in groups. Gah. I sensed a great disturbance, as if a thousand sharks surfaced and were suddenly jumped...
- Semiapies 16y agoTV series have a lot of trouble with consistency unless they have a tight team of in-house writers who are all on the same page. Freelancers with incomplete background information or people who disagree on various points cause inconsistencies. And sometimes they just happen under the best of circumstances. In non-geek genres, most people don't much notice inconsistencies, whether they're pedantic things like "someone goes the wrong way to get to his bedroom" or bigger things like, "When did this character become afraid of dogs? He had a Great Dane back in first season!" ETA: Try trawling the TV Tropes wiki for eight zillion examples of how TV writers of contemporary sitcoms and dramas can't even be consistent with the real world the stories are set in. :)
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