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marinessI just caught up with the first episode of Ringer, the new Sarah Michelle Geller vehicle, and am enthralled with all of the mysteries, including:
1) Why did Bridget's Narcotics/Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor keep his shirt on throughout the episode, and how can we, as an audience, change this later?
2) Who, precisely, was responsible for the atrocity of the greenscreening effects?
3) Is anyone, and by anyone I mean the film editors, aware that Sarah Michelle Geller's body double not exactly her height?
4) Does NOBODY remember to use lifejackets and floatation devices anymore?
5) On a related note, why does the Chrome browser think that "floatation" isn't a word? You worry me, Chrome browser. Are you hoping everyone will drown?
6) Why did anyone think it was a good idea to film any part of this show a) inside a natural history museum, b) with a large whale blocking much of the cast in one shot?
7) Seriously, only two people in that event went out to look at the stuffed elephants? After all that camera attention was placed on the whale? You shock me, show, you shock me. (And they didn't even really pay attention to the elephants.)
8) Does anyone actually give opera concerts in natural history museums?
Apart from the whale, the bit on the ocean (which had nothing to do with the whale) and the surprisingly awful greenscreening, Ringer was enjoyable enough - rough, but with at least some potential. Maybe less money spent on spectacular dresses and fake homes in the Hamptons, and more money spent on the camera. Just a thought.
1) Why did Bridget's Narcotics/Alcoholics Anonymous sponsor keep his shirt on throughout the episode, and how can we, as an audience, change this later?
2) Who, precisely, was responsible for the atrocity of the greenscreening effects?
3) Is anyone, and by anyone I mean the film editors, aware that Sarah Michelle Geller's body double not exactly her height?
4) Does NOBODY remember to use lifejackets and floatation devices anymore?
5) On a related note, why does the Chrome browser think that "floatation" isn't a word? You worry me, Chrome browser. Are you hoping everyone will drown?
6) Why did anyone think it was a good idea to film any part of this show a) inside a natural history museum, b) with a large whale blocking much of the cast in one shot?
7) Seriously, only two people in that event went out to look at the stuffed elephants? After all that camera attention was placed on the whale? You shock me, show, you shock me. (And they didn't even really pay attention to the elephants.)
8) Does anyone actually give opera concerts in natural history museums?
Apart from the whale, the bit on the ocean (which had nothing to do with the whale) and the surprisingly awful greenscreening, Ringer was enjoyable enough - rough, but with at least some potential. Maybe less money spent on spectacular dresses and fake homes in the Hamptons, and more money spent on the camera. Just a thought.
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Date: 2011-09-20 03:30 am (UTC)"Floatation", is a trademarked term from Roho, Inc., manufacturers of the fabulous comfy wheelchair cushion I've sat in for more than a decade. I'm thinking the ubiquity of their advertising, compounded by the catalogs of every DME website, further muddies the fact that both "flotation" and "floatation" are acceptable spellings. (I've always used the single-a version myself.)
"spectacular" is a kind word for the brownish-gold dress, with a Sydney-Opera-House-like form gracing SMG's left breast.
I don't see a long future.
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Date: 2011-09-20 03:40 am (UTC)Ok, now I'm starting to get concerned here, because this is now three people telling me that I'm wrong...except that at the oceanographic center and on most boats, the spelling "floatation" was used for floatation devices, and this is the spelling used by most scientific papers. "Flotation" is the correct term when talking about finance, but for "floatation devices" the a is acceptable. (I was corrected for not using the version with the a.)
This is somewhat reminding me of various people telling me that "dialogue" was wrong, back when browsers for whatever reason were assuming that "dialog", an American variant, was the only correct spelling.
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Date: 2011-09-20 03:45 am (UTC)From the website it looks as if the trademarked term is actually "Dry Floatation," which makes considerably more sense -- "Floatation" has been used in oceanography since at least the 19th century.
But I suspect you're right that their advertising has helped confuse matters :) And you're right that this show is probably not going to last that long, especially with the greenscreening.
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Date: 2011-09-20 12:12 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2011-09-20 12:36 pm (UTC)I thought the show was ok and had potential, but I'm not convinced it's going to be around for awhile, especially if it continues to use greenscreen shots that are that bad, and if it doesn't give us more than two sympathetic characters (Bridget and Narcotics Anonymous guy, who wasn't in the show enough) to watch.