Dear American television, we need to talk
Dec. 14th, 2014 11:49 amDear American television, you remember when I had to have words with you about that episode of Covert Affairs, that had scenes in Cambden's 'Warehouse District' (clue: UK cities are not constructed like US cities)?
I'd long forgiven you for this, but now we have to talk about The Librarians.
Now, I know that this is supposed to be a bit of entertaining fluff, but may I point out a few things:
1. The Crown Jewels don't look like that - and isn't just a crown, by the way, otherwise it would be 'The Crown Jewel' or possibly just 'The Crown'...
2. I'm pretty sure you can't just get within touching distance of them
3. No part of the Tower of London is built of modern breezeblocks
4. Buckingham Palace is a - relatively - modern building (built in 1703) and thus does not have dungeons
5. By the way, London has no real association with any particular version of the Arthur legend (that I'm aware of anyway, though I'm happy to be corrected!) If you had set these bits of the story in Tintagel or Glastonbury then you could have got away with the hand-waving
(To be fair, I'm pretty sure that UK series have made equally stupid scenes set in the US, though this does feel like the equivalent of showing the White House in the middle of a field in Kansas.)
I think what irritates me about this is this is something that would take a quick look at Wikipedia to fix, though I wouldn't be surprised if they knew and just weren't worried. And it's obvious that the budget wasn't big (CGI explosions are very CGI), so maybe that had to use what sets they had.
Overall it was a bit of a disappointment; despite coming from the people who made the smart Leverage it was dumb as rocks - like a less intelligent version of Warehouse 13 (which had its own moments of extreme dumb, but had a much more believable and likeable cast.) Maybe it will settle down as it goes to series - I'm willing to give it another couple of episodes before giving up - but my hopes aren't high.
I'd long forgiven you for this, but now we have to talk about The Librarians.
Now, I know that this is supposed to be a bit of entertaining fluff, but may I point out a few things:
1. The Crown Jewels don't look like that - and isn't just a crown, by the way, otherwise it would be 'The Crown Jewel' or possibly just 'The Crown'...
2. I'm pretty sure you can't just get within touching distance of them
3. No part of the Tower of London is built of modern breezeblocks
4. Buckingham Palace is a - relatively - modern building (built in 1703) and thus does not have dungeons
5. By the way, London has no real association with any particular version of the Arthur legend (that I'm aware of anyway, though I'm happy to be corrected!) If you had set these bits of the story in Tintagel or Glastonbury then you could have got away with the hand-waving
(To be fair, I'm pretty sure that UK series have made equally stupid scenes set in the US, though this does feel like the equivalent of showing the White House in the middle of a field in Kansas.)
I think what irritates me about this is this is something that would take a quick look at Wikipedia to fix, though I wouldn't be surprised if they knew and just weren't worried. And it's obvious that the budget wasn't big (CGI explosions are very CGI), so maybe that had to use what sets they had.
Overall it was a bit of a disappointment; despite coming from the people who made the smart Leverage it was dumb as rocks - like a less intelligent version of Warehouse 13 (which had its own moments of extreme dumb, but had a much more believable and likeable cast.) Maybe it will settle down as it goes to series - I'm willing to give it another couple of episodes before giving up - but my hopes aren't high.