Dear Writers and Script Editors of Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles

[tiggymalvern]

Allow me to introduce to you the basic concept of Science, and the minor matter of facts that I was taught in school at the age of 15. If Sarah Connor is blood group O negative, then her son cannot possibly be blood group AB. Using this combination as a plot point is therefore something of an error.

If I came across this kind of mistake that can be disproved by spending five minutes with google in a fanfic, it would bug me. Finding it in a professional TV series goes beyond words.

Comments

[kiri-moth.livejournal.com]

Silly foreigner, television is for stupid! ;)

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

I know, but I guess I'll never go native as long as I keep importing from Europe and Japan :-)

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

The sad thing is, in many ways it actually is. It has some pretty sharp dialogue, and it deals with some sticky issues in very nice ways while dangling an intriguing long term plot. None of the characters so far have been cardboard cut-outs, they're all interesting with their own issues, and it's generally well-written and well-paced.

Which of course is why it bugged so much. If this had been, well, Bleach or Heroes level entertainment, I wouldn't have bothered to comment.

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

I watch both of those, I'm just never going to accuse them of being well-written quality drama XD

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

Everyone told me this show was getting better.

I am dubious now.

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

I don't think it's getting better, but I thought it was pretty good from the start! So are you one of the 8 million who watched the opener then bailed?

[lady-ganesh.livejournal.com]

We made it through several episodes, but we got sick of the voiceover and were frustrated with the humans.

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

And the same people who have House's assistants discussing a blood film when they're looking at anything but! But those are mistakes at a later stage, by the team responsible for directing and props and setting up scenes. What goes into the script is the responsibility of one person alone (pretty much, though it will be fiddled with later by others). You'd think that the one person would check their facts.

[king-chiron.livejournal.com]

Oh dear, you're going to find yourself very busy if you go about fact-checking TV shows, especially of the action variety.

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

I don't have the time to go about fact-checking, I promise! But I can't help what smacks me in the face XD

[iibnf.livejournal.com]

Maybe her husband cheated on her. She just doesn't know that he's not hers.

(My theory makes as much sense as anything else on TV!)

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

They switched babies at the hospital! Wouldn't that be great?

'So how does this sound? "You're destined to have a kid who will save the world! Except he'll be a random changeling."'

'Um, Kyle, I think maybe you shouldn't tell her that last part...'

[darthhellokitty.livejournal.com]

Wow. They need a good beta.

[tiggymalvern.livejournal.com]

They don't even need a good one, just a half-educated one with the brains to look up what they don't know XD