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Chris in Oly
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| Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 9:30 pm Post subject: Shooting Locks and Crazy Courts - How easy to suspend disbel |
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So, we know from Mythbusters that shooting locks with a gun does nothing. When Kate shot the lock off the door, while I know it is 'TV Real', but it does jerk me out of believability.
Let alone the unbelievable court sequence:
- as someone else point out, tried in California for an Iowa crime
- Character witnesses before the sentencing phase
- Basing a world wide manhunt on the testimony of a single person
While I know that as Lost interacts with the real world, it will be harder to suspend our disbelief with the show. But their attention to detail in everything up to this point has been really impressive.
Can they keep the show going, with questioning all the facts, if they don't keep the facts straight? |
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jg
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| Posted: Wed Feb 27, 2008 10:23 pm Post subject: Re: Shooting Locks and Crazy Courts - How easy to suspend di |
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| Chris in Oly wrote: |
While I know that as Lost interacts with the real world, it will be harder to suspend our disbelief with the show. But their attention to detail in everything up to this point has been really impressive.
Can they keep the show going, with questioning all the facts, if they don't keep the facts straight? |
I have to disagree with you on this Chris. The medical portayals on LOST have been ludicrous.
Suspension of belief is key for me to enjoy the show. Don't get me wrong. I love this show. It's the only TV show I warch.
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not to be a jerk but this is a show with a black smoke monster, paralyzed people that can walk, dead people showing up for no reason, a guy that can talk to dead people, a guy that can see the future, etc etc and you have trouble buying Kate shooting a lock off a door?
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| suburbanhood wrote: |
| not to be a jerk but this is a show with a black smoke monster, paralyzed people that can walk, dead people showing up for no reason, a guy that can talk to dead people, a guy that can see the future, etc etc and you have trouble buying Kate shooting a lock off a door? |
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Tahir
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What you say is true Chris in Oly but ALL tv shows do it.
I've worked in IT for 20 years at many diifferent levels - operations,
pc support, network support and finally ending up as a programmer.
(In Banking mostly - yep its boring as hell but it pays well)
All the nonsense that comes up in tv shows where computers are
involved make me laugh BUT, as Matt Jones would say "...its a tv show". |
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Mark B
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TV is entertainment not real life.
If you look into any TV show closely aspects of it will start to unravel pretty quickly. Even the really really well researched "Doctor-Cop-Lawyer" shows are probably nothing like what happens in real life.
A sci-fi based show starts with the assumption that the audience are willing to suspend reality for the duration.
LOST started with 40+ people surviving a plane crash that nobody would really survive. The tallies would never have survived. Yes miracles happen, people fall thousands of feet and survive but one person off an entire plane not almost 50.
One job of the writers is to keep the viewers suspension of disbelief high enough that you do not automatically notice that things are, well, just not right. If they fail to do that they end up jumping the shark or have viewers laughing in their faces.
It's a thin line between believable and laughable. I think the LOST writers have come close a couple of times but have stayed on the right side of the line up until now.
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