[ SECRET POST #2860 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #2860 ⌋

Warning: Some secrets are NOT worksafe and may contain SPOILERS.

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Comments

Re: Wasted Potential

[(Anonymous)]

The Hobbit. You've got pretty much the same group of people who made LOTR, you've got a pretty solid cast and beautiful sets. But wow have they made some really bad choices in terms of story-telling. I'm not even talking about fidelity to Tolkien. They changes they made just made the movies bad.

Also, I find that for TV there are several story ideas that come up again and again but because it's TV, they're always wasted. For instance, NCIS NO just had a plague storyline that was wrapped up in one episode and none of the main characters got sick. Or if there's an earthquake or other big natural disaster -- they're always wrapped up in one episode and the story is usually formulaic and doesn't take in account the interesting premise. Another example, CSI Miami had a hurricane but the episode was about a murder during the hurricane and not about the aftermath of the hurricane itself. Or they had a tsunami and there was a heist during it - they didn't show the heist or the tsunami. It's budgetary I'm sure but it's still wasted potential.

Re: Wasted Potential

[solticisekf]

Eli Stone has earthquake and it generally has multiepisode storyline.

by the way, I think you need faithfulness instead of fidelity. I imagined Tolkien/OC for a sec.)

Re: Wasted Potential

[(Anonymous)]

Good for you. You watch something that managed to do it right. Nowhere did I say that there wasn't a TV show in the history of TV that didn't do it right. You finding one example (or ten) doesn't prove my point wrong. A lot of TV shows have interesting disaster storylines and waste them.

(And I can use whatever fucking word I want. You knew what I meant.)

Re: Wasted Potential

[solticisekf]

Sorry.)

Re: Wasted Potential

[(Anonymous)]

This response seems a little harsh. To be fair, you did say "always." That's an absolute statement; it does invite the option for offering up examples of shows that did manage to do it right.

Totally agree about the Hobbit, though. I think the main issue was the studio insisting they break it up into three movies to squeeze out all $$ they could, forcing Jackson & Co to pad a short story with extraneous subplots like Tauriel/Kili/Legolas and several too-long CG chase sequences. Hopefully there will be a tighter Director's Cut when it comes to DVD.