That will happen when you have writers who aren’t as smart as the characters they’re trying to write for and studios scared of putting out anything that audiences may not understand.
So apart from tumblr fanbase, why doesn’t /tv/ like this show?
Because it has smart characters written stupidly.
Anton Chigurh from No Country for Old Men is a smartly written smart character. When Chigurh kills a hotel room full of three people he books to room next door so he can examine it, finding which walls he can shoot through, where the light switch is, what sort of cover is there etc. This is a smart thing to do because Chigurh is a smart person who is written by another smart person who understands how smart people think.
Were Sherlock Holmes to kill a hotel room full of three people. He’d enter using a secret door in the hotel that he read about in a book ten years ago. He’d throw peanuts at one guy causing him to go into anaphylactic shock, as he had deduced from a dartboard with a picture of George Washington carver on it pinned to the wall that the man had a severe peanut allergy. The second man would then kill himself just according to plan as Sherlock had earlier deduced that him and the first man were homosexual lovers who couldn’t live without eachother due to a faint scent of penis on each man’s breath and a slight dilation of their pupils whenever they looked at each other. As for the third man, why Sherlock doesn’t kill him at all. The third man removes his sunglasses and wig to reveal he actually WAS Sherlock the entire time. But Sherlock just entered through the Secret door and killed two people, how can there be two of him? The first Sherlock removes his mask to reveal he’s actually Moriarty attempting to frame Sherlock for two murders. Sherlock however anticipated this, the two dead men stand up, they’re undercover police officers, it was all a ruse. “But Sherlock!” Moriarty cries “That police officer blew his own head off, look at it, there’s skull fragments on the wall, how is he fine now? How did you fake that?”. Sherlock just winks at the screen, the end.
This is retarded because Sherlock is a smart person written by a stupid person to whom smart people are indistinguishable from wizards.
Sure and perhaps I’m wrong but just because you aren’t one doesn’t mean you don’t know any. Heck they often get consultants for medical shows for some bits of realism. How hard would it be to talk to some actual scientists and engineers (would probably be pretty cheap) when you’re already spending millions.
The film/tv industry really really sucks at showing smart people.
Oppenheimer sucked. Barbie was only good in comparison to how much shittier stuff there is nowadays.
I haven’t seen a movie in years where exposition scenes haven’t felt like they were directed by a condescending 5th grader.
That will happen when you have writers who aren’t as smart as the characters they’re trying to write for and studios scared of putting out anything that audiences may not understand.
Throwback to this great rant:
Sure and perhaps I’m wrong but just because you aren’t one doesn’t mean you don’t know any. Heck they often get consultants for medical shows for some bits of realism. How hard would it be to talk to some actual scientists and engineers (would probably be pretty cheap) when you’re already spending millions.
Hot take: movie goers are so used to suspension of disbelief that movies are too afraid to take risks that challenge the audience.
Like Netflix pushing every movie to say the plot.
But also, how many braindead takes from “influencers” or morons who don’t understand the film.