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Dumbing Down...
Oct. 6th, 2007 11:50 amOne of the things that worries me is that things have to be dumbed down in order for them to make it in the mass market. ::sigh::
In the CSI episode Thursday night, the writers screwed up the evidence, apparently with the assumption that no one would catch the mistake because the viewers are....too dumb? Both![[livejournal.com profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/external/lj-userinfo.gif)
displaced_texan and I caught it, though. How irritating.
( CSI commentary under the cut )
I really dislike it when writers on TV do that. (Assume that we won't catch a big flaw like that.) Yes, I know they do it all the time. I just wish TV didn't pander to convenience. It's a bit insulting.
Having said that, I will admit that I watched 10 seasons of Stargate to try to figure out how TV plots go. And a great number of them do this. OTOH, Stargate is about adventure, so I can accept some plot errors there. CSI is supposed to be about evidence. Hmmm....
In the CSI episode Thursday night, the writers screwed up the evidence, apparently with the assumption that no one would catch the mistake because the viewers are....too dumb? Both
displaced_texan and I caught it, though. How irritating.( CSI commentary under the cut )
I really dislike it when writers on TV do that. (Assume that we won't catch a big flaw like that.) Yes, I know they do it all the time. I just wish TV didn't pander to convenience. It's a bit insulting.
Having said that, I will admit that I watched 10 seasons of Stargate to try to figure out how TV plots go. And a great number of them do this. OTOH, Stargate is about adventure, so I can accept some plot errors there. CSI is supposed to be about evidence. Hmmm....
