(Warning: No spoilers, but this post might ruin "The Killing" for you)
I was watching "The Killing" last week, and I thought, "is this supposed to be 1992?" The reason was that one of the characters, that girl on the boat who takes care of Linden's son, had racks and racks of CDs. And then Rosie's family had an old fashioned answering machine. Plus, it's set in Seattle, and nothing screams early '90's like Seattle.
I was half joking, but then I watched last night's episode. The Detectives are trying to figure out who Rosie was going out with, who she might have been seeing when she died. And I thought, based on years of television watching, specifically "The Wire", "check the phone records!"
What 17 year old girl doesn't have a cell phone? And what teenager doesn't text with her friends? So she just set out after the dance, on a bus, without calling the person she was meeting first? It makes no sense! The answer is in the cell phone, Linden!
So I was getting very upset about this, and then the end of the episode happened. Letters? Who writes letters?
What about the internet? Check that computer!
You're telling me a 17 year old girl hasn't been facebooking with a guy she likes? I would be poring over every email she ever wrote or received. I have to believe that her computer would be a treasure trove of information. God Dammit, Linden, how are you missing this?
The point is, this show cannot happen in present day! It's impossible. It just doesn't work.
So now I'm gonna be a little disappointed if it's not set in the past. I keep expecting a character to go, "did you hear? 2pac got shot!". Or, "Biggie's dead and it's the same people who got Pac and Rosie!" Something.
I guess, basically, my theory is that Suge Knight is the murderer.
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Same thing but not really happened to me the other night. I was watching a free-on-demand movie (mockumentary as it turns out) called, ''Confessions of a Porn Addict'' (stop judging me, it was Saturday night and I had um...well. STOP JUDGING ME!11!).
Anyway, I couldn't tell at first if it was a movie-movie or a documentary but I only lasted 20 (!!) minutes because regardless of the genre, the film was dated 2008 but the ''addict'' had shelves and shelves of DVD porn. Added to that was a visit to a ''video store'' selling not just porn but VHS PORN!!!
At that point, I was just done (!!). Even given that the film was set in Toronto, I just can't believe even in 2008 Canada a porn addict is limited to DVDs and VHS tapes.
Now to catch up on The Killing.
Great point. One other thing really bugged me this episode (and I hate to bring it up because I love this show) but I thought it was very unrealistic that Rosie's closet was full of matching, nice wooden hangers. No teenager in a working class family would have nice hangers like that.
It's 2010. The check that shady rich guy gives mayoral candidate is dated April 2010.
Also, I think there are letters because it's an English teacher who got all up in that ass with the power/beauty of the written word.
As a supposed writer, Irwin, I am surprised that you have employed the same tactic of seduction.
*haven't
Hm. Cell phone, Facebook, e-mail. Since this isn't a normal crush - I mean, she's (maybe) fucking a teacher, she's probably giving this teenage-girl-CIA levels of secrecy. So if she has any brains at all she's not going to Facebook the guy (seriously, their privacy settings are crud). Cell phone could work, if they could find her cell phone. But wouldn't she have had it on her when she died? It would be pretty easy for the killer to chuck it in the lake or slip it into his/her pocket. E-mail, maybe, but e-mails aren't terribly romantic ;-)
The thing that bothered me was all the blood on the mattress and the bloody hand print on the wall was..... a nosebleed?
And even leaving out CSI: Instantaneous DNA testing... you would think they would've said something about DNA testing that blood to see if it matched Rosie.
Despite all this... I still am falling in love with the show.
i agree with all of your points, 12pt.
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