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An example of where the show's writers just really missed the mark... I wanted to like "A League of Their Own" -- I loved the movie. But I can't watch the TV s
by dbg31415 3y ago
An example of where the show's writers just really missed the mark...
I wanted to like "A League of Their Own" -- I loved the movie. But I can't watch the TV show.
It seems like they have spent a lot to make the world feel like it's WW2-era. Except when anyone speaks. All the dialogue and idioms seem pulled from the present.
And, for me, it doesn't seem intentional. It just seems sloppy. And that makes it impossible for me to get lost in the story. Like it feels like all the actors know it's 2023 and could at any minute bust out a cell phone and take a selfie.
Like, "Mad Men" was a great period piece. "Halt and Catch Fire" was also a great period piece. And even "A Knights Tale", or even "Norsemen" was a good sort of modern spin on antiquity. But ALOTO just feels sort of unintentionally lost between the two.
I can only guess the dialogue gets improvised (I can see this being the case given the casting choices and how one of the creators is also one of the actors), or the writers don't have a shared style guide for consistency, or the story editor (or whatever role) is pressed for time.
But the end result is a show that portrayed a world that had no real conflict (since the actors all sort of seem to know it's 2023) and so it just sort of felt like a predictable outcome where everyone just sort of says things that imply, "I know where society is headed!" And I quickly lost interest.