[ SECRET POST #5665 ]

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⌈ Secret Post #5665 ⌋

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


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Comments

[fscom]

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[(Anonymous)]

Yes! I love seeing people passionate about what they care about. And it's good to clear up misconceptions in my own mind.

[(Anonymous)]

I’m actually a bit conflicted about this, especially when it comes to those weapons and martial arts people.

On the one hand, yeah, it’s frustrating to see the subject of your expertise misconstrued. And it’s great to help people learn more about the reality of those things, using film/TV scenes to make the point.

But when bashing “terrible” portrayals, I often see absolutely no acknowledgement of why those choices might have been made. The fact is that it’s a story meant to move and/or entertain. And there are also practical issues in terms of safety and budget. Reality is not the highest concern.

[feotakahari]

The martial arts stuff can get a bit circular though. I’m not even a martial artist, but there were episodes of Buffy where I went “okay, in this setting, Buffy can use this technique and it accomplishes this.” And then in later episodes, there were times when she was struggling against a bad guy because she wasn’t using the technique from the previous episode. Which is fine, it’s not real martial arts anyway, but then there was an episode where she watched a martial arts movie and complained that the guy onscreen could win the fights more easily if he used his techniques more efficiently! I think you’re asking for it at that point.

[(Anonymous)]

I like it when the reactors acknowledge that something is done or exaggerated for dramatic effect. Like the Sicknotes channel (UK doctor) who analyses fight scenes and tallies up what the damage is/would have been and reacts to medical shows like Scrubs - giving a realistic analysis of the situation but acknowledging that things have to work differently in the land of TV and movies.

[(Anonymous)]

I love this stuff. I often do not agree with a criticism, sometimes you need to drop realism to tell a story. But I mostly use criticism as educational. I am just curious about their field

[(Anonymous)]

Please tell me there's someone out there making fun of all the medical stuff shows and movies get wrong. As a health-care worker while I can suspend disbelief for things, I love chuckling when they clearly didn't research anything.

[(Anonymous)]

From the show in secret #2:

Steven: How come you can't watch the show at home?

Connie: My mom says this doesn't represent a real emergency room.

Nurse: How did his legs... get into... his brain?!

Connie: She just doesn't understand that it's satire.

[(Anonymous)]

Pfft hahaha.

[(Anonymous)]

There was a delightful one for House written by an emergency doctor, but as the series went on and the medical stories just got stupider it was less satisfying. When the writers tried but got a major thing wrong it was fun to analyze, when the only thing realistic was a medical condition and then the writers went off in bizarre directions it was less fun.

(That said, my mother was a midwife for many years and loves Call the Midwife because it's extremely accurate!)

[(Anonymous)]

Dr. Mike does this from time to time.

[philstar22]

Yes, totally agree. Love these.

[(Anonymous)]

I like it, too, but really hate the ones who watch a clip and always just start groaning and saying "It's SO bad!" for a while before actually explaining WHY it's bad. Even if I was under no illusion that it was accurate, as the non-expert audience I feel alienated. Emotionally, I can't participate in the "OMG it's so bad!" moment because I don't know the particulars of how it's bad. I'm watching this to learn something and being entertained but I just feel like I'm being called an idiot which is neither educational nor entertaining.

Fortunately, there are plenty who do not do this (or employ editors who are very good and cut most of that stuff out).

[(Anonymous)]

Yes yes yes! I just went down a rabbit hole of Wired's Ask an Expert and Expert Breaks Down Scenes From Movies videos the other weekend. (The mortician is my favorite guy in those series.) It was so interesting just hearing people explain how stuff works.