That is Not the Metro
Mar. 19th, 2010 12:49 am![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
sadlikeknivesI have turned into one of those people who nitpicks TV shows getting things about a city wrong, and last summer's internship is to blame.
It started when someone's 'rail pass' was a key plot point on NCIS, and I kept thinking, "They are not called that, no one calls it that, stop calling them that they are smart cards." (Actually, they're SmarTrip cards, but everyone I knew called it a smart card.)
So, last night, I was watching Human Target, aka 'my new favorite show.' I believe it is filmed in Vancouver, but set in San Francisco, which, whatever, half of everything is filmed in Vancouver. The episode started in a subway station. Then there was time-jumpiness and excessive use of flashbacks, which this show loves, and eventually it became clear that this episode was set in DC, and this was supposed to be a station on the Metro. Now I will grant you that I have not been in every single Metro station in Washington, but every one I was ever in looked pretty much the same, and none of them looked anything like this place. For one thing, it was actually brightly lit, which, lol no.
And then I realized that this was supposed to be a Metro station in Georgetown and was very disappointed with the writers, because...there is no Metro station in Georgetown. The closest stations are all about a mile away, which, I guess they could have run to Foggy Bottom-GWU (they were on the blue line, according to an announcement, so it wasn't Dupont, and Rosslyn's across the river), but. Whatever. That's allowing the writers too much credit.
In a semirelated note, I had a dentist appointment on Monday (I have a cavity and have to go back this next Monday, fail) and the dental hygienist is going on vacation in DC, and wanted to know where to go. I was like, "The Library of Congress, of course! :D :D :D" Because I am an enormous dork.
It started when someone's 'rail pass' was a key plot point on NCIS, and I kept thinking, "They are not called that, no one calls it that, stop calling them that they are smart cards." (Actually, they're SmarTrip cards, but everyone I knew called it a smart card.)
So, last night, I was watching Human Target, aka 'my new favorite show.' I believe it is filmed in Vancouver, but set in San Francisco, which, whatever, half of everything is filmed in Vancouver. The episode started in a subway station. Then there was time-jumpiness and excessive use of flashbacks, which this show loves, and eventually it became clear that this episode was set in DC, and this was supposed to be a station on the Metro. Now I will grant you that I have not been in every single Metro station in Washington, but every one I was ever in looked pretty much the same, and none of them looked anything like this place. For one thing, it was actually brightly lit, which, lol no.
And then I realized that this was supposed to be a Metro station in Georgetown and was very disappointed with the writers, because...there is no Metro station in Georgetown. The closest stations are all about a mile away, which, I guess they could have run to Foggy Bottom-GWU (they were on the blue line, according to an announcement, so it wasn't Dupont, and Rosslyn's across the river), but. Whatever. That's allowing the writers too much credit.
In a semirelated note, I had a dentist appointment on Monday (I have a cavity and have to go back this next Monday, fail) and the dental hygienist is going on vacation in DC, and wanted to know where to go. I was like, "The Library of Congress, of course! :D :D :D" Because I am an enormous dork.
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Date: 2010-03-19 05:00 pm (UTC)Just remind yourself that they are alternate worlds, and that they don't fit into our reality at all. I was more bugged by the security guard at the FBI letting some guy (with non FBI credentials) into the building without escort than where the subway station was. Or the fact that there were no homeless or buskers, or loud groups of teens in the station.
As for where to go in DC? I spent two days just in the National Gallery. Art dork here!
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Date: 2010-03-20 05:44 am (UTC)