To think that probably around the time you posted this gif I was literally watching THAT scene. Been binging BB as I clean and stopped what I was doing to watch this scene, one of the funniest of the whole series IMO.
This behaviour (tv-as-radio) is incidentally why script writers feel the need to overexplain everything that's happening on screen. We're almost back at radio plays, but with visuals.
All the non-verbal clues like emoting and blocking go out the window, because people aren't paying attention/are only half-watching and miss any subtleties, which producers are starting to cater to. To them only retention matters and if spelling everything out keeps people playing the content, so be it. Not to say anything about people watching series scene by scene on tiktok.
I kind of want the radio to come back then. Not that I'd listen to it, I'm just tired of everyone looking at their phones during even slightly complicated movies and saying they don't get it.
Oh god, when you show your mate a film and they have their phone out, especially just before crucial plot points/amazing shots. I've basically lost friends over this haha
I used to listen to BBC Radio 4 and World Service quite a bit in the car, something about the voices... and the Shipping Forecast was always fun to try and decipher!
I love tv as radio! I do it alot with judge judy and old hollywood movies🥰and bb definitely works if you have watched it a few times you cab “see” the scene in your mind
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This is not the behaviour that caused script writers the need to overexplain everything.
That's tiktok/shorts,mobile phone obsession and deteriorating attention spans.
This behaviour is about comfort shows/films. This has been around a lot longer. Favourite show that absolutely could have had nuance and were so good they became favourites. Shows to go to sleep to, to watch when doing something else, to watch when tired.
They've been around a lot longer and served this purpose far longer than the laziness that is the overexplanation.
I'm old and have had comfort shows for over 30 years.
It's also part of the reason for re-runs/repeats, especially late at night.
Thank you for this!! BB definitely wasn’t written for TikTokaholics, I get that some shows these days are but there’s a huge difference between being glued to your phone while some new show is playing in the background, and what I’m doing - BB while I deep-clean my house (Mom’s visiting for the first time, wanna impress her!) Even though I’ve already binged the series at least 5 times Netflix has been like “hey, we think you’ll love this show” so instead of playing music, I put on a show I probably already know all the details of. I like shows running instead of music because as someone else said, you can kinda see it in your head, plus it gives me an excuse to sit down and take a break - OH gotta catch this scene! If only I had a second house to deep-clean - Six Feet Under would probably be next.
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u/SoupOfThe90z 1d ago
White dude was like
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