You’re creating a false choice (and I think it’s not the first time we went down this road). A fantastical premise is fine – but it’s not a good excuse for ignoring all questions of logic.
The lead reminded me of John Cusack, which (for me) is a good thing.
I did keep expecting Aunt Audrey I to break out into “Somewhere That’s Green” (especially since the style of the show is very much like the style of that segment of the movie)
I think I liked it. I’ll need to see more, of it, but I think I liked it.
Me too. Chuck reminds me a little of the actress that played Trillian in the movie version of The Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy.
And, there was a scene that mentions the immortality factor. It’s when Chuck sees Digby again. "Is that the SAME dog? " Then the Pie Maker makes some remark about how there are only the two of them that he’s “touched” and not touched again.
My husband has been calling me Chuck for years. It was funny to us to see another “girl named Chuck.”
You’re thinking of Zoey Deschanel. I thought the exact same thing.
So…how is that wrong? I’m sitting here winking at my doorway, and with my right eye closed, I can’t see what’s further to the right, just where Chuck was in relation to Aunt Lily.
That’s true when you don’t take into account occlusion, but not the case when you do. Try standing at the right edge of a doorway. If you close your left eye, you can only see stuff to the far left of the doorway (since the wall will block everything else). If you close your right eye, your left eye will be able to see further to the right for things past the doorway.
Close your left eye. Hold a sheet of paper or something halfway between your face and the computer monitor so that it blocks the right half of the screen. Now, without moving the paper, open your left eye and close your right eye. You should now be able to see more of the screen than before.
But you can see further 'round the door to the right with your left eye than with your right; if you could just see somebody to the right, past the doorway, with your left eye, the person might well be invisible to your right eye. On the show, they even demonstrated this by moving the camera slightly to the right, showing how from that position (the position of what would have been Aunt Lily’s right eye, had she possessed one), she could not have seen Chuck. If she had possessed a right eye, and been missing a left eye, it would have made sense that her infirmity prevented her from seeing her surprisingly alive niece (as the irritation narration claimed); as it was, it made no sense. If they had either had the eyepatch on the other eye, or blocked the scene differently, we wouldn’t be having this discussion.
One day I’ll start a thread called “Ask the guy with blind spots in his right eye what he sees.”
Until then, let me say that the camera motion used in the show was correct. It went from what a person with normal binocular vision would see to what a person with only a good left eye would see.
Agreed. I’ve got amblyopia (lazy eye) in my right eye (I’m effectively blind in that eye), and my wife is completely blind in her right eye (morning glory syndrome- she doesn’t even have an optic nerve in that eye). When they showed that scene, we looked at each other and said, at the same time, “Wait… that’s not right.”
A shame, 'cause otherwise the show was damn near perfect.
No, it did not. Change the word “left” to “right” and you’ll have it.
I just took a look at my tape to make sure I was still right. Yep.
Something else, though – I’m actually starting to warm up to the show. If they ditch that stupid narration, I’m in. (For instance, right at the end, when Ned and Chuck were each holding their own hand – that would have been a nice moment if it weren’t for the goddamn narrator making sure I didn’t miss it.)
Looks like Lightnin’ and me will have to throw down. I still say the camera pan matches my vision loss, with my less-than-fully-functional right eye.
Well, I’m sorry, but the camera is dollied a few inches to the right. That would show the effect of a nonfunctional left eye. If Aunt Lily had had two good eyes, she still would not have been able to see Chuck with her right eye, because Chuck would have been occluded by a wall. However, she would have been able to see Chuck with her perfectly good left eye.
Of all the things to be arguing about. Still, it’s odd that they made such an obvious error.