I may have mentioned this before but why is it nobody ever says goodbye at the end of a phone call?
I once worked with a person who did that. It's rude and sometimes you are left hanging thinking they are going to say more. But remember that it is their problem / hangup (pun intended) so don't create a reaction that sucks you into the fallout.
The passionate argument where two people who hate each other are screaming at each other face to face, then stop screaming to start a passionate make-out session.
How no camera shot seems to last more than one second.
Character 1 says something. Character 2 says, "are you saying that...?". Character 1 replies, "I didn't say that." when we all know that that is exactly what character 1 meant.
During a street shoot out with good guys and bad guys shooting from behind vehicles. Bad guy, for some reason, decides to step out in the clear to continue shooting, then immediately gets gunned down. Nobody is that stupid.
The passionate argument where two people who hate each other are screaming at each other face to face, then stop screaming to start a passionate make-out session.
Now that's a popular trope. :)
During a street shoot out with good guys and bad guys shooting from behind vehicles. Bad guy, for some reason, decides to step out in the clear to continue shooting, then immediately gets gunned down. Nobody is that stupid.
The writer is (that stupid). In fact many of the writers are as you see it often.
And what about the guy who's on top of a building, who gets shot and falls forward off the building. A bullet would knock them back.
A variant of that is when you have a bad guy and a cop in a hallway. The cop is visible and aiming his gun down the hallway while the bad guy is out of sight around the corner. Shots have been exchanged and there is no one else around. Bad guy pops out to shoot. Instead of just popping a cap as soon as the bad guy is visible, cop instead ducks back around the corner. Saw it again last night watching an episode of FBI: Most Wanted.
Recurring irritation - when writers assume the audience is mainly morons.
Example: I recently saw a clip from The Flash where Captain Cold and his father (played by the awesome Michael Ironside) are in the corridor of a highly secure bank vault. The room is criss-crossed by lasers. Captain Cold freezes them with his gun, then walks through the frozen laser beams like they were brittle glass rods.
Seriously? Frozen light? But then again, that series was pretty much like that right from the start.
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That no matter how badly damaged a space ship is, the artificial gravity device always seems to keep working.
Well, up until some plot twist requires a moment of inconvenience.
I completely agree with what you wrote.
The reason for what is happening (I mean the commercial breaks) is the dependence on financial income from advertising.
A similar trend is observed on the Internet. No product (or content) is sold, but advertising is relied on. Yes, but the number of advertisers is limited.
As for some rather funny moments, especially in police shows, they are too far from reality.
I can share personal experience about how professional cybercriminals work in the field of competitive intelligence, and not only that, but their methods have nothing to do with what we see on the screen. Years ago, somewhere, I wrote a series of humorous materials entitled "Cyber Terrorist's Handbook". I will translate them into English, because there are quite interesting moments there, concerning very real events.
But I admit that I prefer books to television. I like to read Mo Hayder (Tokyo, Hanging Hill, Pig Island), Steinbeck (Of Mice and Men, he Grapes of Wrath, The Moon is Down, East of Eden), O. Henry, Scott Fitzgerald (Tender Is the Night, The Last Tycoon, The Great Gatsby), Salinger (Franny and Zooey, Nine Stories, The Catcher in the Rye), Asimov (I, Robot, The Caves of Steel, The World of Carbon), Stanislav Lem (Opowiesci o pilocie Pirxie, Dzienniki gwiazdowe, Cyberiada, Summa Technologiae, Wielkosc urojona, Dialogi), Strugatski (Picnic on the roadside, Snail on the slope, Beetle in the anthill, Monday begins on Saturday) etc.
And I definitely like listening to music.
Bullets have much more inertia when hitting someone standing next to a large pane of glass or a balcony.
The person who, at the beginning of the show, tells the hero, "Don't trust anyone" will turn out to be the villain who eventually says, "I told you not to trust anyone."
Anyone who coughs will turn out to have a serious, probably fatal disease.
Cop gets a phone call, "You'd better turn on channel 3 RIGHT NOW". When they turn on the TV the news item is just starting. If it is just starting, how did the caller know to phone to tell them about it?
When someone breaks into an office after hours but leaves the door ajar so the security guard can immediately see that something is amiss. Same thing when they exit.
Any Halloween themed episode of a series, excluding the annual Simpsons Treehouse of Horror.
In westerns, the outlaws always ride slow horses. The hero catches up after a short chase.
Yeah. They did it again. The most recent episode of High Potential (modern female Sherlock Holmes). Many shots have already been fired. Cop is in the tunnels facing a bad guy with machine gun pointed at the floor. Tells bad guy to drop the weapon. In real life, if the machine gun comes up the bad guy is put down. In the show, machine gun comes up, cop ducks down. Then they exchange shots a few times and eventually the cop gets off a lucky shot. What exactly is the point of having your gun trained on a bad guy if you aren't going to shoot when necessary? Especially if you are going to eventually shoot him anyway?
I hate how rich kids are always beautiful. Hey, rich kids can be unattractive too. And by "unattractive" I don't mean beautiful but with glasses.
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