Same thing with conversations in crowded bars and restaurants. Even if the bar is standing room only and music is blasting the main characters can always converse in a normal tone of voice.
Pan Am...did anyone watch?
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Same thing with conversations in crowded bars and restaurants. Even if the bar is standing room only and music is blasting the main characters can always converse in a normal tone of voice.
I heard from my father than my grandfather (the former Pan-Am pilot) and several Pan-Am retirees he still talks to (another pilot and two stewardesses) liked the show. My grandfather apparently wasn't familiar with serial television series, though. He's apparently only watched sports, movies, the weather, the news, and documentaries for the last sixty years. 
My grandfather apparently wasn't familiar with serial television series, though. He's apparently only watched sports, movies, the weather, the news, and documentaries for the last sixty years.
Ha! That's great.
Is the spy angle historically accurate? I don't have a clue, myself.
But I was entertained. I've set a series recording on my DVR, as long as it's not sucking.
But I was entertained. I've set a series recording on my DVR, as long as it's not sucking.
A former flight attendant who consults for the show claims yes it happened to her.
Lucille Ball also claimed she intercepted Chinese Morse Code through dental fillings and that resulted in an arrest. No such thing ever happened.
Just because a writer/consultant claims something happened doesn't mean it did.
Just because a writer/consultant claims something happened doesn't mean it did.
Without the spy stuff, the show would have been a bigger risk. ABC might have even decided not to air it without a more guaranteed "hook" to hold onto the audience. Just flying around here and there doesn't have any inherently dramatic conflict to it. Flying around here and there, and doing a spy mission, is guaranteed dramatic tension.
And without that hook, we might all be bitching that the show is boring and there's no reason to watch. Just look at Terra Nova - you'd think dinosaurs would be enough of a hook, but a lot of people are complaining anyway.
I can see why TV producers would err on the side of caution and not assume that any subject matter on its own is inherently interesting. I can think of plenty of shows that bored me because they didn't answer the question, "why should I care?"
Lucille Ball also claimed she intercepted Chinese Morse Code through dental fillings and that resulted in an arrest. No such thing ever happened.
Just because a writer/consultant claims something happened doesn't mean it did.
"When the legend becomes the truth, print the legend."--The Man Who Shot Liberty Valance.
Who cares if it really happened as long as it makes a good story? This is a frothy tv drama, not a documentary. I could be wrong, but I'm guessing that the NYPD doesn't really need help from wise-cracking mystery writers either (see: Castle.) Or that secret spy agencies don't really turn homeless runaways into highly-trained assassins (hello, Nikita.). Or that there's a good-guy serial killer who preys on other serial killers (Dexter). So why not have secret spy stewardesses?
It's tv. Go with it.
I don't really care how realistic it is, or whether it really happened or not, just that I don't think it's something that's need on a TV series that already has a rather solid premise on it's own.
(see: Temporal Cold War arc discussion above.)
(see: Temporal Cold War arc discussion above.)
I still find it to be an interesting show, though I'm not liking the "Lost-like" approach it seems to be taking with the story-telling, I am liking Katie Holmes in it and I love the French Stewardess.
Neat trick, considering she's not on this show.
I enjoyed last night's episode too. All the actresses are hot. So, I'm going to keep watching.
Christina Ricci, I mean.
My wife is full-on Qubecquoise and we live in Alberta. Twenty seconds into the pilot episode, I hear "Hé, c'est Karine Vanasse - tabarnane!" from her. A known actress from Quebec in a big network show is pretty rare, really...The French stewardess, Colette...
She's played by a French Canadian actress from Quebec. I'm French Canadian and my parents are from Quebec. It's trivial, but there it is.
Liking this one so far. They go really far to make it look like the 60s, but there's only so much you can do, even with all the added green screens, on a TV budget. Anyone seen this yet?
http://www.fxguide.com/featured/pan-am-retro-green-screen-world/
Mark
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