Interesting Links for 30-04-2019

[andrewducker]

Simon Pegg & Nick Frost To Adapt 'Rivers of London'

(tags:tv books fantasy )

Court Case Conclusively Proves a Hash Brown is Not a Phone

I mean, not really, but it's a great headline
(tags:phones driving law )

Norway finds 'Russian spy whale' off Arctic Coast

(tags:russia spying whales )

Release of '13 Reasons Why' associated with 30% increase in youth suicide rates

(tags:suicide tv )

Arya Stark is left handed. Maisie Williams is not. She's just more badass than you thought. She made the choice to play Arya left handed when she was 12 and stuck with it for a decade

(tags:gameofthrones fighting acting impressive )

Blood test for chronic fatigue syndrome could speed diagnosis

(tags:ChronicFatigueSyndrome blood )

Corbynista left splits over Brexit referendum

(tags:UK europe labour politics )

Ian McEwan's Machines Like Me would be better if he'd read any of the Science Fiction he looks down on

(tags:scifi writing review )

Interesting piece about the latest Game Of Thrones episode

(tags:gameofthrones viaSwampers )

Gamers Blame Socialism for Making Women in Mortal Kombat 'Ugly'

(tags:beauty women games design OhForFucksSake )

Labour's process for dealing with racism accusations is shockingly awful

(tags:labour racism OhForFucksSake )

How do people see the different parties in terms of Brexit?

(tags:UK europe polls )

Why is Game of Thrones so dark? We asked the cinematographer

(tags:film tv gameofthrones )

Comments

[doug]

This from the cinematographer in the article is telling: "A lot of the problem is that a lot of people don’t know how to tune their TVs properly"

Granting this for the sake of argument (and charitably changing 'tune' to 'calibrate the display settings of'), if you know this is the case, why make something that you know will come across badly?

I totally buy that there is a noble and important calling in making art that is right, art that is a full and proper expression of your artistic vision, rather than making a popular product that a mass audience can appreciate without special training. But I really don't think that one can reasonably argue that the eighth season of a TV series with record audiences is the former and not the latter.

[doug]

See also the BBC and 'Mumblegate', where there were some early suggestions - correctly dropped later - that the problem was the fault of people having poor-quality sound on their TVs.

[naath]

I will rewatch on our big TV, but I was watching on a phone; surely this is not an entirely unknown way of consuming media? Art should not only be for rich people with good TVs

(I am not great at seeing dark things anyway, but usually I manage to follow the dialogue, like a Radio Play, but tLN was almost entirely without dialogue; need audio description for the blind)

[skington]

If you're going to try to persuade people to revert their TV from the settings that make it look good in the showroom but shit in your living room, though, what better soapbox than the most important episode in the final season of a spectacularly-popular TV show, though?

I was reminded of a time that Conrad Hilton (of hotel chain fame) appeared on TV and was asked whether he had a message for the American people. He did: "Please put the shower curtain inside the tub!"