Questions to which I will never receive an adequate answer:
1. Why do people in TV shows walk through dark
alleys? I just watched “Gotham,” in which the Wayne family ran into a murderer,
in a dark alley. The Waynes are filthy rich … they have to catch a cab? Mr. Wayne's too cheap to hire a car and driver?
The innocent — stupid — person alone in a dark alley runs
through most all of TV, from “Buffy” to “NCIS.”
Wise up, producers and network suits. Let your storytellers
be original, for once.
2. “Gotham” indulged in another cliché: a cop said to
another cop at a crime scene: “What do we got?”
Besides the grammar issue, every crime solver says that,
from “NCIS” to “Bones” to “Castle.”
Shorthand, I suppose, but lazy.
Awhile back, a character in a show the title of which I didn’t
note said, “What do we have,” and my mind went spinning.
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