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[tearknee]

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/WorstNewsJudgmentEver

[Lugal]

20 hours ago, meep.meep said:

Someone gets a call/text saying "turn on the TV!"  and they turn it on and see something they can relate to.

Me:  there's 700 channels, can you be more specific?

When it's the situation of "Giant squid-monster eats the Empire State Building" you can pretty much bet that nearly every channel is going to cover it.

But in that situation, rather than telling them to turn on the TV, it's just as easy to tell them, "Holy @#%& shit!  There's giant squid-monster eating the Empire State Building!!"

[proserpina65]

On 11/1/2024 at 2:06 PM, Affogato said:

Yup, teen sex is not fanfiction bondage or hours of gentle orgasms. Sophistication requires a learning curve. 

I haven't seen a lot of that on tv shows with teens that I've watched, just the clumsy and quick missionary.  Maybe I'm watching the wrong shows?

On 11/1/2024 at 9:15 PM, tearknee said:

If you want to show any awkward teenage sexual fumbling's, you have to cast an adult actor, because doing so with a teen actor constitutes child pornography.

Not entirely.  A lot depends on the age of the teenager, parental consent and the country where the show is filmed.

 

[Affogato]

18 hours ago, proserpina65 said:

I haven't seen a lot of that on tv shows with teens that I've watched, just the clumsy and quick missionary.  Maybe I'm watching the wrong shows?

 

 

I believe my contrxt was how it strikes viewers. The tv shows clearly are not porn. Per se, but the fan fiction often is, and ‘evidence’ is shows like Riverdale, wherr it is lampshaded by everyine sleeping with everyone, in groups. 

[tearknee]

19 hours ago, proserpina65 said:

I haven't seen a lot of that on tv shows with teens that I've watched, just the clumsy and quick missionary.  Maybe I'm watching the wrong shows?

Not entirely.  A lot depends on the age of the teenager, parental consent and the country where the show is filmed.

 

ISTM that I was clearly referring to Hollywood/SCal?

[Anduin]

One I like is defeating biometric scanners. Like, putting the person's hand on the scanner after they've been killed, or removing someone's eyeball. Macabre, but it always makes me smile. Of course, I've also seen bits of wire jammed into important sockets or making a mask of someone's face. It's all good fun.

[proserpina65]

On 11/14/2024 at 7:53 AM, Affogato said:

I believe my contrxt was how it strikes viewers.

Clearly it doesn't strike all viewers that way.

[Affogato]

3 hours ago, proserpina65 said:

Clearly it doesn't strike all viewers that way.

Hell, some don’t watch the shows and it doesn’t strike them at all! However canon and fanon are two different things. I do think the age of the actors, reason doesn’t matter, effectively changes the story. For some it may simply make it less problematical. 

[Gharlane]

On 11/12/2024 at 5:54 PM, Mabinogia said:

All they really had to do was go to their local bar where the TV is always turned to the news and the exact news you need to further your story is being shown just when you need it. 

I like how the reporters on TV wait for the characters watching to stop talking before continuing with their news story. 

[tearknee]

6 hours ago, Gharlane said:

I like how the reporters on TV wait for the characters watching to stop talking before continuing with their news story. 

Uncle Howee in the Haunting Hour is used to parody that

[tearknee]

On 11/13/2024 at 7:46 AM, meep.meep said:

Someone gets a call/text saying "turn on the TV!"  and they turn it on and see something they can relate to.

Me:  there's 700 channels, can you be more specific?

"Hey, what gives? I thought you had a satellite dish". -- "Sure didilly do. Over 230 channels locked out".

https://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Recap/TheSimpsonsS5E16HomerLovesFlanders

[Kel Varnsen]

On 11/1/2024 at 7:04 PM, scarynikki12 said:

For teenage roles you just hire adults and then you can film as long as you want.

Also if you hire adults you don't have to worry about them actually doing school work or having tutors or that sort of thing.

[tearknee]

and have the characters do sexual things that would get the whole production team arrested if they were actual teens. At least where Hollywood is.