Stupid writers

[kengr]

Fay and I are watching Monday's episode of The Event. And the writers were idiots.

They've been mentioning some weapon in Siberia for the last several episodes. They've also mentioned Murmansk. Ok, no problem.

But in this episode there refer several times to Murmansk as being in western Siberia.

Can't anybody bother to look at a map? Murmansk is in Western *Russia*. It's almost to the Finnish border. Siberia is several thousand miles east of Murmansk.

Comments

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

There seem to be at least three models. (I don't watch The Event, myself.)

1) There are actually two weapons or sites of interest.

2) One or more of the characters can't read a map.

3) The writers were grossly lazy.

Since the location of Murmansk is hardly secret, there's no excuse for (3) except that the writers did not do the research on geography. For (1) or (2), I'd think it would be useful to hint to the audience what's going on.

[mikkop.livejournal.com]

Heh, that's funny.

I am Finnish and live in Finland, so I think I know where Murmansk is.

On the other hand, one friend moved recently to Princeton and I had the notion that it's somewhere in the North-Eastern United States. I had to consult a map to locate it.

Though I can't understand why the writer's didn't have maps...

[scott-sanford.livejournal.com]

If you live in Finland, you don't need to know where Princeton is. That's what a map is for. Indeed, Google Earth will find it for you.