On a slightly different tack, I'm getting sooooooooooo tired of overhead shots of forests, and maybe a road with a single car driving down it. Look, we know you've got a drone. Everyone and his brother has a drone, but use it to spy on your neighbours, or do something else with it eh!
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Originally posted by elguapo4 View PostHas anyone in real life ever spat a mouthful of liquid across the room when someone else has made a slightly surprising announcement. Or pushed a full plate of food away when someone else mentions something mild about body functions.
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I think we all know what's going to happen here ...
https://www.theguardian.com/world/20...ens-to-outrage
Have they hired the handsome, morally conflicted (but needs the job) bear-whisperer? The hot'n'brainy female scientist who insists he's not her type, but who is she fooling? The hard-faced money-grubbing boss who insists the creatures are better off than in the wild, so everybody wins? The family with annoying child who studies bears for fun, while parents work on their issues?
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One I spotted during ITV3's rerun of Quiz:
An emotive court case is nearing its conclusion. The defendant (or close relative) go in to the gents, where at the urinal they are joined by the victim (or relative). There is no one else in the toilets.
A tense silence ensues.
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I've never been to an American high school, so can someone please confirm that on your first day there, the front will be awash with kids skateboarding, playing frisbee and listening to boomboxes. You will be jostled continually, and people will look down on your clothing choices.
After that first day, no matter how often the front of the school is shown, everyone will actually behave perfectly normally.
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"Murder boards" - they look like art projects with notes written on different pieces of paper or in different colours of pen and the ubiquitous string linking photos of crime scenes together. Do detectives / coppers spend hours staring at such creations in real life?
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When a character goes into the confessional (room? booth?) in a church, if the priest is not immediately shown on screen as a priest, then he won't be. There might not even be anyone there (for comedic purposes, like Easy A), or he will be an enemy (various dramas), or dead already, or in some other way certainly not the person you want to be confessing to.
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Originally posted by Snake Plissken View PostI'm rewatching Castle which is really good for this. The latest is "audio of a murder being recorded on a mobile phone and able to be played back via that same phone to an entire room with perfect clarity".
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One thing I've noticed is the explanation of the case to either a superior or the accused takes a form where each character in turn delivers a line of dialogue to reveal what happened. This happened a lot in Elementary as well. It's very, very weird and unrealistic.
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It's obviously standard plotting to show things going well for a character early on, so that they can be undone by events later.
A common way is for them to get a new job or promotion they've been hoping for. At which point s/he will announce the news to their nearest and dearest by describing themselves thus: "You are now looking at the ..." (new partner in the law firm, or tenured professor, or CEO at TrustTech ...).
I have never heard anybody say this, and if they did I would certainly never want to work with them.
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