Yabut, the science on Breaking Bad isn't realistic! http://youtu.be/6ncwzVmE5IM <http://youtu.be/6ncwzVmE5IM>
--- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, "Rick Archer" wrote: > > Good observations on the show's portrayal of the BP Oil disaster. I was > thinknig that while watching the show, but that was a couple of months ago, > so I had forgotten that reaction. We'll probably try another episode now and > then when there's nothing else to watch, but these days, everything pales in > comparison to Breaking Bad. > > > > From: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com [mailto:FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com] > On Behalf Of authfriend > Sent: Tuesday, August 27, 2013 11:50 AM > To: FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > Subject: [FairfieldLife] Re: The Newsroom: Red Team III > > > > > > --- In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com > , "Rick Archer" rick@ > wrote: > > > > I've only watched the first two episodes so far. My only > > criticisms were that the dialog seemed so frenetic, and so > > cute and witty and off-the-cuff articulate, that it seemed > > unrealistic. Aaron Sorkin's "The West Wing" sucked me in > > and made me feel I was really in the White House. > > Pretty much the same here, Rick. But even the super-snappy > dialogue in "West Wing" began to get to me after a while. > > A couple years ago I was doing something in the kitchen > with the TV on. I hadn't been listening, but the audio of > a clip from some dramatic show that was being played > caught my attention. I hadn't heard it before--it wasn't > from "West Wing"--but I knew instantly it was a Sorkin > show because just the rhythms of the dialog were so > recognizable. Seems to me that has to be a flaw of some > sort. > > > The Newsroom > > hasn't sucked me in yet. I felt I was watching something > > unrealistic. > > I've seen only the first episode and a clip from the final > episode of the first season, and it wasn't just the dialog > that was unrealistic. I wonder what folks who have actually > worked in the White House thought about "West Wing" in > terms of realism. I know nuttin' about working in the > White House, but I do know something about TV news > operations, and there was stuff in the first episode and the > later clip from "Newsroom" that was seriously inauthentic. > > Just for one thing, the station's reporting on the Gulf > disaster was portrayed wildly inaccurately: they supposedly > dug up the details of what had happened very shortly afterward > that *nobody had actually known for days and even weeks*. > And the script used that faux knowledge to beat up on other > news outlets for going with the "drama" of the missing crew > members instead of focusing on the environmental disaster > (which, in reality, wasn't yet evident to anybody at that > point, but which the "Newsroom" folks had purportedly > uncovered within a matter of hours). > > Not that the news media totally covered itself with glory > in its reporting on the Gulf spill, but this portrayal was > just below the belt, IMHO. Nobody who watched this episode > who hadn't followed the Gulf story pretty closely would > have any reason to suspect that the news media had not, in > fact, disgraced itself in the early days of the catastrophe > by not doing the necessary investigation. > > Still pisses me off. If you're going to re-create a very > recent major event for a mass audience, you need to take > significant pains to do it accurately rather than > distorting it for the sake of the drama. Otherwise your > grossly mangled version is likely to become the common > wisdom. >
