How on earth did I end up on Metafandom? I was just remarking on the big scuffle, in kind of a peripheral way... huh. Go figure!
I've lived all my life in LA and I don't think TV or movies reflects my So. Cal. experience at all. It's Hollywood-ized.
That's fair. The whole TV experience is about idealized situations - I always find myself laughing the luxury apartments even poor characters are supposed to be able to afford in TV and films - but I guess what's striking me lately is the simultenous emphasis on "realism," as if all this stuff can be taken totally seriously, and an increasingly narrow focus on what rates as "normal." We kind of got a discussion going earlier in this thread about how odd it is that idealized LA teens have become the accepted norm lately, while middle America is seen as backwoods and/or "quirky," so I guess that's what's been making me scratch my head lately. For all the rest of the country knows, LA really IS like that. I remember meeting this guy once who came to LA for film school from Europe, and he was shocked that it wasn't all palm trees and swimming pools, like it always looks in the movies...
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I've lived all my life in LA and I don't think TV or movies reflects my So. Cal. experience at all. It's Hollywood-ized.
That's fair. The whole TV experience is about idealized situations - I always find myself laughing the luxury apartments even poor characters are supposed to be able to afford in TV and films - but I guess what's striking me lately is the simultenous emphasis on "realism," as if all this stuff can be taken totally seriously, and an increasingly narrow focus on what rates as "normal." We kind of got a discussion going earlier in this thread about how odd it is that idealized LA teens have become the accepted norm lately, while middle America is seen as backwoods and/or "quirky," so I guess that's what's been making me scratch my head lately. For all the rest of the country knows, LA really IS like that. I remember meeting this guy once who came to LA for film school from Europe, and he was shocked that it wasn't all palm trees and swimming pools, like it always looks in the movies...