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Tropes that movies, etc. use that you hate.
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^ Okay, I did. And it wasn't like what you were implying - Donnie didn't deliberately try to burn down the hotel or anything like that (and, I might add, he did not actually burn down the hotel - yes, there was fire damage, but the hotel itself was intact). He and a NKOTB bandmate were partying with fans and it got out of control. I'm not trying to justify that, but it's not premeditated arson. Just a wild party that went off the rails.
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Tell me where I said it was premeditated? I don't see that word in my posts like you're claiming.
"I'm not trying to justify that"
Literally your next sentence:
"Just a wild party that went off the rails."
He poured liquor on a(n occupied) hotel floor, lit it on fire, was arrested, faced a 20 year prison sentence, and cut a plea deal to do community service, because he was famous and like a lot of times when rich famous people get arrested the authorities decided it's more in the public's interest to have them do public service than to go to jail. I've been to lots of parties. Very few ended up with hotels on fire and arson charges. You're "Boys will be boys"ing it because you're a fan.
The facts remain:. He deliberately set fire to a hotel. He was charged with arson. He took a plea deal doing public service to avoid a 20 year prison sentence.
And none of that has anything to with the character he plays on Blue Bloods, which is what auntiehill's previous post was criticizing and actually relates to the thread topic. Danny Reagan didn't set any fire anywhere in the nineties. Moralize in some other topic, willya?
Why I'm so sorry Mr. moderator, is that an official warn - wait a minute, you're not a moderator here! You sneaky devil, trying to tell people what they can and cannot post.
No, no, I'm sorry for not giving a flying shit what Donny Wahlberg did thirty years ago and actually telling you about it. I'll make a greater effort to respect your irrelevancies from now on.
Then block and move on.
I don’t like it in long running series where they artificially draw out the romantic tension for years and years. Five years of ‘Will they/won’t they’ gets to the point where you stop being excited and start feeling manipulated. And worse, the tension blocks either character from finding any other happiness with anyone else. And when they finally do get together, they only let the happiness last a half season before finding some silly reason to break them up.
If you can’t write two characters in a stable loving relationship, you are a bad writer.
If you can’t write two characters in a stable loving relationship, you are a bad writer.
I remember that happening in a couple of episodes of Magnum where John Hillerman, a Texan actor playing a British character, has to pretend to be Texan and puts on an exaggerated accent.
Always grinds my gears when a movie or TV show does a police "Ride along" and it invariably pairs a tough, ornery veteran of the force with a bumbling, nervous passenger...
They always end up in a shoot-out, of course, and the veteran casually tosses a gun - an extra ! - to the untrained not-a-cop, and says "Just point and shoot !"
Bonus points if the passenger fires and then plays Hot Potato with the gun because they didn't know the gun would be, um... warm after emptying the clip.
Extra bonus points if the newbie wings the officer by dropping the gun !
They always end up in a shoot-out, of course, and the veteran casually tosses a gun - an extra ! - to the untrained not-a-cop, and says "Just point and shoot !"
Bonus points if the passenger fires and then plays Hot Potato with the gun because they didn't know the gun would be, um... warm after emptying the clip.
Extra bonus points if the newbie wings the officer by dropping the gun !
Like on Blue Bloods with Jamie and Eddie. From the moment they first started riding together it was mind-bogglingly obvious they would end up as a couple. But I like what the show has done with them since - they're still serving in the same precinct, they're happily married, AND they keep their personal and professional lives separate (they're husband and wife, but on the job Eddie is still under Jamie's command, and he gives her orders like he would with any other cop).
I do hope they don't ship Danny and Baez, though.
As for accents: When Linus Roache was on L&O, he put on a near-flawless NY accent. I honestly couldn't believe he's actually from the UK. The only thing that gives it away is when he does that thing where he puts an "rr" sound on the end of a word that doesn't have one - meaning, if he says a word ENDING in a vowel followed by one that BEGINS with a vowel, he tags the first word with an "rr" sound.
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Whenever a show has characters date others just so they realize that they're meant for each other.
When shows resort to cheap plot devices... I cannot see another letter soon enough.
When shows resort to cheap plot devices... I cannot see another letter soon enough.
Also Waverly in Wynonna Earp. I find it mildly amusing.
Do you remember which episode Waverly "faked" a British accent in? I'd like to see it.
Remember, it was a a Jack Webb produced show. There wouldn't be a civilian in it that would show up real cops.I can definitely say ADAM-12 avoided that trope when a middle-aged black councilwoman hitched a ride with Reed and Malloy. She was certainly level-headed and trouble-ready, but mustn't offend the South.
O.J. Simpson had a cameo on one episode, but I can't remember whether he was a cop or an activist.
No one ever ends a phone call with a “goodbye”, they just hang up.
Not a trope, but sometimes the economy of characters results in unintentionally funny stuff. Of course your main characters are going to do everything, but how about those CSI guys that investigate the crime scene, then do lab work, then track down the bad guy, then interrogate the bad guy, and sometimes gets into chases and gun fights with the bad guy? When do they sleep? Or take days off?
There was a CSI: Miami episode where Caine knew where a bad guy was going to strike next, but did he call anyone to warn them or send the police in? No, he kept it to himself and drove across the city to take care of it by himself. Fortunately, he arrived at precisely the right time.
There was a CSI: Miami episode where Caine knew where a bad guy was going to strike next, but did he call anyone to warn them or send the police in? No, he kept it to himself and drove across the city to take care of it by himself. Fortunately, he arrived at precisely the right time.
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