Must be the result of having spent several years in orbit on a space station in Prisoners of Gravity (his character, who interviewed some pretty big-name science fiction authors, editors, and comic book artists, was Commander Rick).
Unique Properties of Television Worlds
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Here's one from Hawaii Five-0: at least every other episode, the Five-0 team members are less than 20 feet away from an explosion, but there has never been any mention of long-term permanent body damage (loss of hearing, shrapnel in skin, etc.) in spite of how many times they have nearly died. Just Danny's complaints. Oh yeah, and Steve recovers within a week every time he does get hit by gunfire. I'm no M.D., but is the human body that flexible?
Nope. Most people who get shot in the shoulder (usually treated as a minor injury in TV) have to deal with some degree of nerve damage, pain, and limited mobility for the rest of their lives.
How about the unique property in many TV series where during a car chase a car comes up on another car or object and instead of plowing into it, crumpling the front and even possibly throwing the dirver out the windshield, it leaps up like there was a ramp there, going side ways. Of course there IS a ramp there, but still in real life...
Or in many TV series with police, how somehow hiding behind a car door can avoid getting you shot, when in reality many common calibers go threw car doors.
Or for that matter, how so many people can dodge bullets and even when standing in the clear, the bad guy still misses multiple times -- even if he had the advantage.
And how it seems bad guys are trained to fire at the ground in front of people, over people, or where the person was a a second or two ago, rather than at the target. Even trained killers or kilelrs with ltos of practice.
And "Miami Vice", where apparently every drug lord in the world goes to and/or operates, which also seems to be the murder capitol of the world.
Or in many TV series with police, how somehow hiding behind a car door can avoid getting you shot, when in reality many common calibers go threw car doors.
Or for that matter, how so many people can dodge bullets and even when standing in the clear, the bad guy still misses multiple times -- even if he had the advantage.
And how it seems bad guys are trained to fire at the ground in front of people, over people, or where the person was a a second or two ago, rather than at the target. Even trained killers or kilelrs with ltos of practice.
And "Miami Vice", where apparently every drug lord in the world goes to and/or operates, which also seems to be the murder capitol of the world.
Everyone but Oliver could see "the words." And everyone but Oliver could hear the patriotic music that played whenever he made one of his speeches.
Show like "Murder she wrote" where generally normal people get tangled up in murder and other crimes every single week without seeking out those situations. All the while those people never get investigated for those weitd coincidences and als for some reason are not the most famous crimefighting citizen on the planet.
In sci-fi/fantasy there is the variation of the theme where every single supernatural event ever recorded happens just where the hero lives and goes.
In sci-fi/fantasy there is the variation of the theme where every single supernatural event ever recorded happens just where the hero lives and goes.
How about "CHiPs" where it seems run away cars, swerving cars, people in distress, occur when John and Ponch are on patrol.
Wouldn't be much of an episode if all they did was ride around and nothing bad happened...
Y'know, on the other end of the spectrum, fiction does tend to do some things correctly. As TV Tropes puts it, Truth in Television. http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/TruthInTelevision
For example:
Amazingly Embarrassing Parents
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents
Ambiguously Gay
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AmbiguouslyGay
Very False Advertising
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VeryFalseAdvertising
For example:
Amazingly Embarrassing Parents
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AmazinglyEmbarrassingParents
Ambiguously Gay
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/AmbiguouslyGay
Very False Advertising
http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/VeryFalseAdvertising
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