Originally posted by gateraid
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Thoughts on Weir's non-rescue:
A failed rescue attempt would have been better than what happened, which gave the impression of "if she's out there, I'll find her. I'm not actually going to look for her though, coz, you know, that would be too obvious. Sure, I killed sixty-odd people last time i thought she was dead, but this time I'm just going through the motions. That's why i waited weeks to bring up the subject"
But to be honest, if they'd written it a bit better, i could have accepted it. What grated me was that the whole situation only made sense if you knew what was going on behind the scenes. For as much as they go on about wanting to secure the casual viewer, this indicated to me that they didn't really know how to write for him/her.
A failed rescue attempt would have been better than what happened, which gave the impression of "if she's out there, I'll find her. I'm not actually going to look for her though, coz, you know, that would be too obvious. Sure, I killed sixty-odd people last time i thought she was dead, but this time I'm just going through the motions. That's why i waited weeks to bring up the subject"
But to be honest, if they'd written it a bit better, i could have accepted it. What grated me was that the whole situation only made sense if you knew what was going on behind the scenes. For as much as they go on about wanting to secure the casual viewer, this indicated to me that they didn't really know how to write for him/her.
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Then in TMC, once again we see that John and Rodney still haven't given up hope that they will bring her home. At some point they must have been talking about ways to do that, but TMC changed everything. Now, granted, they shouldn't have believed repli!Keller, but once again we have the writers to blame for that. Then after this, when they never bring it up again we can turn to blaming TPTB.
Originally posted by JT-2
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And you mentioned editing, we used to talk about that a lot here. When you listen to the commentaries, especially the ones with the actors, you learn that they are sometimes surprised by how a scene turns out. It's all in the editing, and I always wondered how much of the eyesex was due to that also. Anyone who makes vids, knows that you can make almost anything look real with editing.
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