[Tech1] Casualty

[Geoffrey Hawkes]

I wouldn’t be listening to TA but am married to a fan and it’s on while we’re having our evening meal, so no escape. Casualty is the only soap we watch together though she likes Holly City too which I opt out of,
Geoff

> On 2 Jan 2021, at 22:33, Nick Ware via Tech1 <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk> wrote:
> 
> You mean to tell me there was a director, and even a crew? I thought it was just improvised acting with a bunch of runners with handycams!
> I can’t comment on the Archers. Like Corry, I’m proud to say I have never seen/heard a single episode - ever.
> And then, after McIntyre’s The Wheel, which I quite enjoy, on comes Ab Fab, which is in every way just that - Ab Fab. Or should that be Ab Professional?
> Cheers,
> Nick.
> Nick Ware - Sent from my iPad mini 5
> 
>> On 2 Jan 2021, at 21:55, Geoffrey Hawkes <geoff.hawkes134 at gmail.com> wrote:
>> 
>> In a word, dreadful. I muttered out loud about it till my wife shut me up, for which I don’t blame her as she just wanted to follow the story. I was going to stop watching and post a comment here myself as I could almost hear the groans coming from our quarter. Instead I turned to RT to see who the director was and didn’t recognise the name. I guess he’s a new boy trying to make a name for himself by dressing the Emperor in a new suit of clothes and hopes to win praise from people like Peter Kosminski who used wobbly-cam to extinction on Wolf Hall for which he was hailed as a genius by the writer and others.
>> I thought that a big mistake too as it just draws attention to the shots and away from the action.
>> I can only imagine with Casualty the idea was to convey an air of how frantic the situation was and how it in those early days of unpreparedness the epidemic was escalating out of hand, as it was only done in the flashback scenes not when Connie was expressing her feelings to  Charlie. When we got to the end, my wife commented how depressing the story had been and I too thought they had laid it on a bit thick.
>> Incidentally I couldn’t help thinking how wooden Charlie has become, like he’s reading his lines off a board. I’ve noticed that before and he hasn’t improved. I know the character is very popular with the viewers and is the only one remaining of the original cast so they would be very reluctant to drop him. It would be like dropping Dixon from Dock Green - but now they have an ideal time to do it and let everyone mourn. He must be due retirement by any account now, surely.
>> The same could be said (pardon the blasphemy), for The Archers failure to let the Peggy or Jill - or even Jim bow out gracefully through that final-exit door,  instead of creating the unreal situation of Ambridge being “Covid free”, as they announced it through most of last year.  Why take that line when the virus was picking off so many people in real life. 
>> Again I think developments like that ain’t gonna happen, as it would have the switchboard jammed by callers from Tonbridge in no time😡
>> Geoff
>> PS There’s nothing like a good grumble to get the year off to a fine start, is there?
>> Disgusted of Chesham
>> 
>>>> On 2 Jan 2021, at 19:51, Nick Ware via Tech1 <tech1 at tech-ops.co.uk> wrote:
>>> 
>>> I know this isn’t the place to complain, but if you’re watching Casualty at the moment, what do you think of the camerawork? And why not 16x9? And is it just me that sees massive strobing on fast moving images?
>>> OFF.
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