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[arib]

I like Crossing Jordan, i really do.

My only problem with it is that it doesn't look like it takes place in Boston at all.

Especially when they mention landmarks that are within walking distance of my house, and film the scene at a location that doesn't even come close.

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[farwing.livejournal.com]

Wait- it take place in Boston? Not that I've ever seen it, mind you...

[mactavish.livejournal.com]

So many similar shows are filmed in Canada. There was recently a (very bad) TV movie about a massive quake striking the entire state of California, with fake mountain names -- Northern California has massive mountains with their own names, but they never showed those -- and mountains from British Columbia and trees that aren't here and in general, it wasn't California.

(That said, in The Thornbirds, California stood in for Australia. From a distance, live oak looks like eucalyptus.)

[icyhotla.livejournal.com]

I second your motion!

[gridlore.livejournal.com]

Really. The worst offender to me was Sliders which was theoretically set in San Francisco, but I don't think anyone involved in the show ever actuall visited the city.

The worst offense happened in the frigging pilot. Quinn, the hero drives back to his home, a nice two story house with a white picket fence. He then goes down to his lab in the basement. We don't build basements out here. Why dig a hole for your house to fall into when the next quake hits?

Then, after the make the first accidental leap to the Ice Age world, the three how made the leap exit the house, and look down on a frozen Bay and downtown. The only place you can get that vista is from Twin Peaks. And houses on Twin Peaks are wall to wall with no front yards (some of those streets don't even have sidewalks.) Add in Roosevelt's odd choice of driving patterns. We see him driving along Marina Blvd on his way to Candlestick Park to sing the National Anthem.

Check out this map.

His starting point is about where the label for the Golden Gate NRA is. Candlestick Park is at Candlestick point. Quinn's house is right around the "cis" in Univ of California - San Francisco. Zoom in and see that Roosevelt ignores several straight line routes to the freeways that actually go to the Stick in favor of looping narrow roads on steep hillsides.

ARGH!

Sorry, screwing with SF is one of my pet peeves. Don't even get me started on The Rock...

[fleurdelis28.livejournal.com]

Everything in Boston is within walking distance of your house. (Not that that addresses the actual issue in any way.)

[arib.livejournal.com]

Nono, I mean a playground that's a ten minute's walk from here.