Apologies if this has been touched on in the thread already, but I just observed this today, and every time I see it on stage or screen it feels so… unnatural.
People stopping their sentences mid-word (they get one syllable out but not the rest) because they are startled by something that had happened.
I suppose it’s technically possible that it happens in life sometimes, but in experience people finish the word at least, if not wrap up their sentences.
True. I don’t think I’ve seen anyone say “What th…?” in real life.
Now, I do say “What in the wide world of sports is goin’ on here?!?”
But even when shocked, I finish the sentence.
Not quite the same, but I’ve definitely had people trail off mid-word because whatever it is they’re simultaneously reading on their phone is more interesting.
Yes, it is incredibly rude.
To quote a MAD magazine parody, “The director wanted to get us away from that boring, confining set.”
My reality could use a few more breaks from boring, confining sets.
True. Plus, what’s the point of setting the show in Brighton if you never see the characters on the pier?
In the next scene, the DCI and Sgt. are walking into the ocean and it’s revealed to be a Monty Python sketch complete with fish slapping.
Revealed to be a Monty Python sketch almost never happens in real life.
They also go visit people when a phone call would do as well.
When cops are on stakeouts for dangerous killers they’ll sit in their squad cars with their windows fully open so just anybody can walk by and slash their throats.
I loved the episode of The Sopranos where two Feds were listening to a CI talking to Tony in a diner while they were sitting “inconspicuously” inside a car across the street in the pouring rain. A crooked cop noticed the FBI license plates and tipped off Tony’s crew.
Bye-bye, CI!
What about that time I got slapped with a fish?
It was only a fish wound.
Did the slapper have a fish license?
“This is a Dog License with the word “Dog” crossed out and the word “Fish” written on in crayon.”
“Man didn’t have the right form.”
I’ve noticed the “walking around outside for no reason” trope was heavily used in later episodes of Kavanagh QC TV show from the 90s. I suspect it’s to avoid being stagnant, play-like. Some of the actors, for various reasons, are not up for a long walk so they have to sit on a bench fairly quickly. One scene in the very last episode with Kavanaugh and daughter is truly a long walk to nowhere.
I remember an early episode of Gray’s Anatomy where Baily took the interns on a 4-turn indoor walk where they ended up exactly where they started and didn’t do anything at all on the walk except talk.
Similarly, when someone is talking and another person interrupts them, the person immediately stops and there is no overtalk. When I did stage, I usually added a couple of words to my line if interrupted to get that small overtalk.
Inspired by today’s episode of The Avengers: Why is there always a ledge outside a window somebody (good guy/bad guy) has to climb through multiple stories above the ground?
I got hit with a fish in the face twice! Once my friend pulled the fish in too fast and - bang, right in the kisser! next, we were on a fishing boat and the deck hands were chumming with live anchovies and one hit me in the head.
Worse is a cop show where the detectives are shown as morons- calling out a suspects name from 30 feet away, leading to a foot chase. Those FBI shows on CBS are really bad on doing that.
Which Avengers? On what Channel?
I think we saw this being done on three shows in a row we watched recently. You guys are supposed to be professionals???
Digression: I’d heard of the movie Brighton Rock years and years ago, but only saw it a few years ago. I always thought “Brighton Rock” was some big rock off shore that was a local landmark – like Morro Rock. Although I knew it before I saw the movie I had no idea (for years) that Brighton Rock was a kind of hard candy.
The one with John Steed and Emma Peel, on CHCH (Toronto) at noon. Today’s episode was “The £50,000 Breakfast.”