This really bothers me in live-action shows (and a lot in movies) where you have a female fighter. Doesn’t matter what she’s doing, her hair never gets in her face. This really bugged me in Daredevil (I know, not a show, but anyways…). Elektra does a backflip in one scene, and her hair falls perfectly in place when she lands. Geesh, in real life she would either pull it back or lose the fight because she can’t see*.
Somehow it doesn’t bug me much in cartoons.
*This reminds me of a late episode of Dragonball Z where Gohan tells Videl she should cut her hair. Not because he thinks it would look better, but because it would be less of a liability when fighting. Although she at least ties it back when it’s long.
Shows like “CSI” or “Crossing Jordan” where the crime labs are almost completely dark except for spot-lighting here and there and some neon blue lighting in the background. They look more like a trendy martini bar than a lab.
Completely agreed.
The whole Apprentice show is a farce. If anyone believes the lineup of contestants is a sampling of the best and brightest in America and that you need real intelligence to get on that show think again. What you need is to be overly dramatic, or have a temper, or over egotistical, or really obnoxious, or overly emotional. If they’d be a good person for the Real World and they have held a white collar job or a college degree, then they’re perfect for the show.
Not to continue to pick on the CSIish type shows, but it’s fascinating how all the female techs wear tight, low cut tops, ass hugging slacks and blouses unbuttoned well past any office standard I’ve ever seen.
Beyond this it’s interesting how some of the younger male lab tech CSI’s often come to work with these 200 dolllar gelled and massively highlighted hair cuts.
The lighting thing gets me, too – frequently totally unrealistic, but it usually amuses me more than bugs me.
What I don’t like is along the lines of the “everyone’s hot” thing. Everyone is either hot and toned – women are size 0 or 2 – or completely obese and over-the-top fat. No one is average, or even just a little on the chubby side – a size 12 or 14, say. No, they’re either a stick figure or morbidly obese.
We’re talking about cop shows and noone has mentioned the mandatory gravelly voice for the male leads? It’s like every cop show features an Alec Baldwin impersonator now.
Laugh tracks kill me. I hate the hell out of them. I stopped watching that 70s show simply because of the laugh track.
Which husband? Chester? It was eventually revealed a brain tumor made him kill Burt’s son. When the tumor was surgically removed he was back to his normal, sleazy self, crime forgiven.
Every lawyer show has female lawyers wearing low-cut tops and very short skirts and extremely high heels. I know several female lawyers, and not one of them would ever show up to work dressed like that.
ok - i’m on board with everything listed so far
but i have one thing not yet mentioned
female chefs with their hair loose and hanging down, instead of tied back, or up under their chef’s hat
i first noticed it in the first season of Friends, and anytime a female character works as a cook/chef in a restaurant, their lovely hair is perfectly coiffed, instead of what it ought to look like after several hours in a professional kitchen
ok - i’m on board with everything listed so far
but i have one thing not yet mentioned
female chefs with their hair loose and hanging down, instead of tied back, or up under their chef’s hat
i first noticed it in the first season of Friends, and anytime a female character works as a cook/chef in a restaurant, their lovely hair is perfectly coiffed, instead of what it ought to look like after several hours in a professional kitchen. It’s in clear violation of the simplest of health codes!
I wouldn’t exactly say it drives me nuts but I was just thinking the other day how often TV and movies will show a character smoking early in the show, to establish the person’s persona but then they never show them smoking or talking about smoking again. No matter how stressful the situation, they never reach for the smokes after the opening sequences. One example that comes to mind is “The Upside Of Anger” in which Joan Allen is smoking and drinking in her darkened living room as she depresses over her husband’s departure but then never smokes again despite other emotional upheavals.
“reality” television, it drives me nuts that it still exists, kill it, put it out of it’s misery, it deserves to die
okay, now that that’s out of the way, my real gripe…
the new Battlestar Galactica can’t seem to make up it’s mind about the “sound in space” issue, in the Mini and the first couple of eps, space was (thankfully) mostly silent, save what the pilots might hear inside the cockpits (heh heh heh, he said “cockpit” ), but later on in the series, there seems to be a higher prevalance of sound in space, make up your mind, either stay reasonably scientifically accurate and keep with the no sound/audible in cockpit only sound, or go fully Hollywood and use all the whizzes, bangs, zaps, and explosions that the average viewer has come to expect from the likes of Trek/Wars/Etc…
Instant trials in legal shows. I know it’s to move plots along, but it normally takes months to get a trial, even for something relatively inconsequential.
), but later on in the series, there seems to be a higher prevalance of sound in space, make up your mind, either stay reasonably scientifically accurate and keep with the no sound/audible in cockpit only sound, or go fully Hollywood and use all the whizzes, bangs, zaps, and explosions that the average viewer has come to expect from the likes of Trek/Wars/Etc…