Wonderin

[ericcoleman]

coat_of_brown touched on this earlier today. This is kinda my variant.

What is your favorite "they didn't do their research did they" moment in movies or TV?

Mine, I think it has to be the episode of the X-Files (which I am too lazy to go look up at the moment, but I think it's in season 1) that happens, partly, around Lake Okoboji in NW Iowa.

I personally was not aware that there were lovely mountains in NW Iowa.

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[bammba-m.livejournal.com]

Does this even count? I've no idea. When I lived with Len, anything that took my attention away from him was BAD. So when I'd watch something like CSI: Miami, he'd pick apart the geography. Non-stop. "Oh that's not there, you can't get to that place from that other place that way." Crap like that.

I got so angry at him I said, "Yes, and I'm sure the Miami Dade police department can afford for their entire CSI team to drive around in Hummers."

Or perhaps "Running Scared" The chase scene on the train tracks tickles me, because you really can't get to there from here on the path they take. Still, it's a cool chase scene.

Or did I get this one wrong? I forget now. What was the question?

[ericcoleman]

That chase sequence in Running Scared was almost my choice. I didn't realize how funny it was till I moved to Chicago

[bammba-m.livejournal.com]

VI Warshawski has a similar chase scene down the canals.

Very cool chase scene. Just... not practical.

Running Scared tickles me because it was the first time I ever noticed something like that. I mean, I've never been to western Iowa, maybe they do have mountains. Sure, they're not on maps, but what do maps know, anyway? But I take the train in Chicago.

Things like that just add to the fiction part for me. This is an alternate Chicago. It's not a true story because they've changed some inconsequential elements. It's a fairy story. Now shut up and pass me the popcorn. *grin*