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[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 46 points 1 month ago (1 children)

A lot of those questions are answered in the books so they're not wrong in noticing something off there. The whole "that's not how turbines work" portion is just the curse of expertise. Willing suspension of disbelief is easier when you don't know how something complicated works. Crime dramas do this all the time with DNA.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 43 points 1 month ago (2 children)

Crime dramas do this all the time with ~~DNA~~ reality.

[–] BodyBySisyphus@hexbear.net 37 points 1 month ago

Yeah, treating forensics as an actual science is mistake #1

[–] prole@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago (4 children)

Breaking news: fiction is fictional

[–] CptKrkIsClmbngThMntn@hexbear.net 14 points 1 month ago

It is fiction; it just feels like bad world-building. The more familiar I am with a world, the less immersive it will be when a writer or producer plays fast and loose with the rules of that world (physical, cultural, whatever) to tie a plot together. This goes for "the real world" obviously but also applies in other cases: e.g. a long-running sci-fi show, despite having made up its own bullshit physics system, suddenly pulling a grand new quirk out of thin air in the finale to let the protagonist snatch victory from the jaws of defeat. It's lazy, just like the use of tech in crime dramas has always felt lazy, because they're not trying to build a new world for you - they're trying to suck you in by telling stories that you can imagine happening in the real world, and anything jarringly unrealistic can pull some people out pretty quickly.

[–] crime@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago

If they're going to break from reality about understood biological processes or physics or whatever, they should do it on purpose and be more fun about it. It takes ten minutes to skim a Wikipedia page to make sure you don't sound like an idiot on the show that millions of dollars and lots of labor are going in to making

[–] CrawlMarks@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Yes, but not all fiction is fantasy and it is hack to inject fantasy elements into an otherwise reasonable story. Like, the conflict is about some magical pseudo reality so I can't emotionally give with the stakes and enjoy the work.

[–] JoeByeThen@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

Fictional Copaganda still works tho. kitty-birthday-sad

[–] Canonical_Warlock@lemmy.dbzer0.com 32 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It really is a shit show though. If you have seen or read any other dystopia story then you've basically already seen silo. If you played a drinking game where you took a drink every time you called one of the "twists" then you'd fucking die. It's actually a bit impressive how formulaic it is.

[–] HelluvaBottomCarter@hexbear.net 3 points 1 month ago

I remember it being episode 3 or 4 of her in the

spoilerother silo and wondering if they were really going to have her spend the whole season in the other silo. they did. it's not a bottle episode, it's a bottle season. It really does feel like one of those canceled Fox prime time genre shows from 2007.

[–] crime@hexbear.net 27 points 1 month ago

I don't blame them tbh, it's so much harder to enjoy poorly written garbage when there was zero attempt to get the easy physics stuff right.

I've got the kind of autism where hearing people being wrong about stuff I know about is legitimately painful, and I'm also an engineer and a writer, so shows like the one described are unwatchable.

Same goes for ones with red scare bullshit that completely reinvents history to make the USSR a believable villain.

[–] SchillMenaker@hexbear.net 27 points 1 month ago

Idk, I'm getting autistic gigachad vibes

[–] GenderIsOpSec@hexbear.net 19 points 1 month ago

i try to approach all media with a sense of charitability. This leaves me able to enjoy most kinds of dumb/bad slop and I'm much happier for it.

[–] DeathToBritain@hexbear.net 17 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I also have this exact type of autism that makes me act like this when watching something I know is Wrong. though, I don't post it on the internet for people to tell me "just enjoy the show", I just rant to my wife

[–] BlimeyGumshoe@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Does she give you the look sometimes too? My so does...

[–] DeathToBritain@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

my wife is also autistic, and so she just enjoys the infodump lmao

TBF it's a SciFi show, having tech in it that actually makes sense adds to the immersion.

[–] Homer_Simpson@hexbear.net 12 points 1 month ago (1 children)

It was a pretty bad episode from an engineering standpoint tbh.

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 4 points 1 month ago

There's a reason I was in that thread a year later tbf I was just unprepared for how negative a space it would be

[–] Acute_Engles@hexbear.net 10 points 1 month ago

The way i push through the cynical picking apart of movies is to imagine the conditions of the universe that make the thing I'm picking apart make sense.

"Oh in this reality turbines work like this which would imply x y z" (i don't know how turbines work)

Makes it a lot more fun when something else happens that you can connect to your previous assumptions and create a whole sub-plot about how shit got so weird

[–] FourteenEyes@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago

idk sounds like incredibly shitty writing

I completely agree with him and I didn't even know this show exists

[–] CrawlMarks@hexbear.net 7 points 1 month ago

Kinkshame bur kinksame. You don't have to make a story about stuff. If you do it should be good. If a plot point is wrong about the way the world works that is hack writing.

[–] btbt@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

Most importantly, why is this guy wearing a shirt that says “genius at work” when he just spent a bunch of time typing all that shit out?

[–] ShimmeringKoi@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago* (last edited 1 month ago)

I started that paragraph trying to be sympathetic and ended it doing the Christman Specialmatt-jokerfied

[–] SmokinStalin@hexbear.net 5 points 1 month ago (1 children)

I cant tell which show thisis

[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 8 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] SmokinStalin@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)
[–] Assian_Candor@hexbear.net 6 points 1 month ago (1 children)

Anything for my comrades

As long as it's on my phone