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Ok, so waiting for some telebision program to come on...
I catched the end of some drama called "Mind Games".......
If this is the state of current TV drama I am appalled......not that I expected by some miracle that TV production would have evolved somewhat over the past 40 years.....
Technology has improved, for sure....but direction, screenplay, acting, dialog, etc. etc. are another story....
A 40-minute-long endless series of soundbites masquerading as lame, regurgitated dialog in a post-modern Joe Friday-esque delivery.
After 3 minutes I wanted to scream. So I muted the audio and began to type this irrational stupidity. It was only on another minute or so...it's detrimental effects have been neutralized....
The horror....
the horror.....
the horror.....
Is it any wonder I watch documentaries?
Sure, it is possible this is not representative of a large segment of modern-day network programming, but for some reason it looked so fucking cookie-cutter in the overall production values, the dialog......even the costuming and set dressing......they are all the same fucking monotonous yet pedestrian shades of black, grey and khaki.......One Life To Live gone Prime-time.....all that is missing is the cheezy organ in the background......
On a slightly relevent note....I had gone to see the Star Crack: Next Generation movies at the theater.....I think First Contact was the last one that really seemed like a film. The next one I was sitting there watching it, and about 30 minutes in I realized I was watching an expanded 1-hour TV script with a bunch of dollars thrown at it.
I actually got up and walked out before it was over. I realized the fucking thing had been directed by someone who had no real experience directing motion pictures, but had worked extensively in the television field......
The reboot of Star Trek got it right. It was a FILM. Not an overblown TV episode with Captain Picard at the helm.
Had never really recognized the differences as such until that point...what...in the late 90s? But then I am not in the picture business, and had not really paid attention to that.....these days it is easier for me to spot directors who have worked in television but have made the leap to working in pictures. Can't describe it. A sort of "small homogenized" production style.
Ugh....
Fortunately I have the ability to change channels at will. This ability has saved me from many painful hours of torment at the hands of evil yet incapable television producers.
But we must consider, Ridley Scott directed TV commercials before he got into pictures.
Not everyone is Sir Scott though.
Certainly not the director of that supposed television show I saw....
I catched the end of some drama called "Mind Games".......
If this is the state of current TV drama I am appalled......not that I expected by some miracle that TV production would have evolved somewhat over the past 40 years.....
Technology has improved, for sure....but direction, screenplay, acting, dialog, etc. etc. are another story....
A 40-minute-long endless series of soundbites masquerading as lame, regurgitated dialog in a post-modern Joe Friday-esque delivery.
After 3 minutes I wanted to scream. So I muted the audio and began to type this irrational stupidity. It was only on another minute or so...it's detrimental effects have been neutralized....
The horror....
the horror.....
the horror.....
Is it any wonder I watch documentaries?
Sure, it is possible this is not representative of a large segment of modern-day network programming, but for some reason it looked so fucking cookie-cutter in the overall production values, the dialog......even the costuming and set dressing......they are all the same fucking monotonous yet pedestrian shades of black, grey and khaki.......One Life To Live gone Prime-time.....all that is missing is the cheezy organ in the background......
On a slightly relevent note....I had gone to see the Star Crack: Next Generation movies at the theater.....I think First Contact was the last one that really seemed like a film. The next one I was sitting there watching it, and about 30 minutes in I realized I was watching an expanded 1-hour TV script with a bunch of dollars thrown at it.
I actually got up and walked out before it was over. I realized the fucking thing had been directed by someone who had no real experience directing motion pictures, but had worked extensively in the television field......
The reboot of Star Trek got it right. It was a FILM. Not an overblown TV episode with Captain Picard at the helm.
Had never really recognized the differences as such until that point...what...in the late 90s? But then I am not in the picture business, and had not really paid attention to that.....these days it is easier for me to spot directors who have worked in television but have made the leap to working in pictures. Can't describe it. A sort of "small homogenized" production style.
Ugh....
Fortunately I have the ability to change channels at will. This ability has saved me from many painful hours of torment at the hands of evil yet incapable television producers.
But we must consider, Ridley Scott directed TV commercials before he got into pictures.
Not everyone is Sir Scott though.
Certainly not the director of that supposed television show I saw....
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