Anonymous wrote:My pet peeve is every single period drama that claims to be hIStoricALLY ACcuraTe yet features nary a toothless actress. Before modern dentistry people lost most of their crooked teeth well before their old age, why does Hollywood give their medieval princesses perfectly white, straight rows of pearly smiles?

Tangentially related but I heard the Jon Snow love interest (the wild? zombie? Northern barbarian coded anyway; you may have gathered I don’t watch the show) was mad the director made her shave her pubic hair for the sex scene — she was like really? There is NOT WAY this woman shaves.

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Anonymous wrote:What’s your biggest pet peeve?

Here’s mine: When two characters from the same foreign country speak to each other in broken, heavily accented English rather than their mother tongue. That never EVER happens in real life. It’s baffling to me why directors always do this. I mean, directors: If you can’t find two American actors who speak fluent German, then just hire a couple of German actors and use subtitles for their scenes. It will make the movie feel more authentic and the audience will appreciate that you respect their intelligence.

Do you really think most people that watch movies/TV want to read subtitles for significant periods of time? No, they don’t. Know your audience.

I think the Hunt for Red October handled this pretty well. Sean Connery's accent was clearly out-of-place, but you were already supposed to be imagining that they were speaking Russian.

"One ping only, pleashe" doesn't quite sound right in Russian.

Anonymous wrote:Also apocalyptic sci-fi thrillers wherein humanity is on the brink of total collapse via famine yet the women have smoothly shaved legs and feminine glossy lips, long lashes and freshly shampooed hair.

And no one looks like they are starving. Which they would be!

On the breakfast thing, there will be juice in a pitcher or coffee in a carafe. Really? Who has time for all that in the morning?

Or for any meal prepared at home or at a restaurant, the characters don't eat a bite and then leave without touching the food.

On Yellowstone food magically appears in the dining room and usually no one eats it.

A few things in The Office (U.S. version).

I’ll take a stab at it since it attempts to be historically and geographically accurate.

The visible palm trees, for one. Someone (I forget who) taking a train to Philly; there is no train IRL to there or to NYC. Also, it takes at least 2.5 hours to drive from there to NYC, not including parking. That would be a PITA to do a few times a month like Michael did. It would be impossible to drive into Lake Scranton, which is a man-made reservoir. People do boat on Lake Wallenpaupack, and I think it even does “lake tours” via boat. It would be a tad far at about 50 minutes for a company event. There is no Chilis or Hooters near where DM would be located.

Flaws aside, I enjoyed the show!

Anonymous wrote:Criminal Minds used to drive me crazy. They were based in Quantico but talked about going to DC like it was a 10-minute drive, not almost an almost hour drive (or longer, on a bad day). It also bugged me when they used NYC subway cars for the Metro. They also showed someone arriving to work at Quantico by Metro, which cracked me up.

Yes! I am the L&O pp, what about a shooting or crime scene in NYC at 8am and they are in New Jersey before lunch chasing down a lead. I mean, no its not that far, but does anything move that quickly in the investigative process? Maybe I'm wrong, but the level of office activity within such a rapid timeframe always bugged me.

Criminal Minds used to drive me crazy. They were based in Quantico but talked about going to DC like it was a 10-minute drive, not almost an almost hour drive (or longer, on a bad day). It also bugged me when they used NYC subway cars for the Metro. They also showed someone arriving to work at Quantico by Metro, which cracked me up.

The latest incarnation of Law and Order (Organized Crime) does something to drives me bat$hit crazy.

They have an early 30s/late 20s female that can do anything technological under the sun. But, she also does the following:

Is involved in raids in about 1 in 5 episodes.
Is the lead on a dangerous under cover mission in about 1 in 3 episodes.
And in about almost every single episode she can track a bad guy/or good guy online, digest and undertake a psych eval based on all of the nefarious, yet publicly available pics on social media.
Knows every trend and relevant cultural taboo and all while her boss is over her shoulder in astonishment.

Whats worse, her character has the personality of a wet tissue, making her scenes unwatchable.

I can't really watch Abbott Elementary because teaches have no free time and that show makes it look like the teachers rarely teach. WHO IS WITH THE KIDS? What teacher can go out to lunch?

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Anonymous wrote:Any time a girl throws up, she's pregnant. 100% of the time.

or faints

And not only is she barfing and/or fainting, but it is always a complete surprise to her that having unprotected sex leads to pregnancy.

I know shoes on and shoes off people, determined handwashers and folks who seem baffled about the purpose of the bathroom sink, people who eat balanced breakfasts every morning. But when I was a 20-something, my friends and I were ALWAYS aware of when our periods were due, and we sure as heck noticed if they were even a day late.

Anonymous wrote:^^^Not in Call the Midwife!

https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/news/a567499/call-the-midwife-newborn-babies/

Call the Midwife also has pregnant women staggering around in the early stages of labor, not sure what's going on. Sometimes they do a big rush of water breaking, but not usually

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Anonymous wrote:My pet peeve is every single period drama that claims to be hIStoricALLY ACcuraTe yet features nary a toothless actress. Before modern dentistry people lost most of their crooked teeth well before their old age, why does Hollywood give their medieval princesses perfectly white, straight rows of pearly smiles?

Rome on HBO won the prize for that. All the actors had bleached and bonded teeth, spray tans, and trainer-sculpted perfect bodies. We get it: no one wants to see characters with fizzing, broken teeth and missing eyes, but reality leaves the building in most historical displays.

Actually ancient Roman teeth were pretty OK. Their diets had low or no sugar so cavities were rare. They ate far chewier, tougher breads and meats from younger ages so their jaws were much stronger, which has the effect of causing teeth to come in straighter. And they used human and animal urine as a pretty effective teeth-whitener.

https://www.docseducation.com/blog/ancient-romans-had-healthier-smiles-we-do-today

Anonymous wrote:My pet peeve is every single period drama that claims to be hIStoricALLY ACcuraTe yet features nary a toothless actress. Before modern dentistry people lost most of their crooked teeth well before their old age, why does Hollywood give their medieval princesses perfectly white, straight rows of pearly smiles?

Rome on HBO won the prize for that. All the actors had bleached and bonded teeth, spray tans, and trainer-sculpted perfect bodies. We get it: no one wants to see characters with fizzing, broken teeth and missing eyes, but reality leaves the building in most historical displays.

^^^Not in Call the Midwife!

https://www.goodhousekeeping.com/uk/news/a567499/call-the-midwife-newborn-babies/

Everyone gives birth to a 6 month old baby.