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avaantares · 2 years

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Me: /slaps every character in this scene/

(rant begins below cut)

Spoilers for episode 19 of Guardian (though at this point I think I'm the last C-drama fan on the internet to watch it)

Look, I realize this show didn't have a budget. I can handwave the """absolute zero laboratory""" with its five-foot-tall open ventilation fan, vinyl-covered medical exam table, shelves of uninsulated supplies, and several inbuilt LCD screens that would not survive hitting zero Fahrenheit, much less zero Kelvin. I can shrug off the fact that none of our heroes thought of removing the lift-out hinge pins that are clearly visible on the INSIDE of the door and just walking out of the room. It's a little harder to rationalize the choice not to block the relatively small hole through which the refrigerated air is blowing into the room, and it's kind of ridiculous that even though one of the people locked in the lab has the ability to produce flame at will, nobody attempted to build a fire out of any of the flammable materials lying around (like, say, the cotton ropes, or the gauze and alcohol in the first aid kit, or anything in the boxes of lab supplies) to stay warm. All those things are silly but largely forgivable, because constructing a more accurate set or adding in more fire SFX might cost money the production just didn't have.

But WHY. for the love of thermodynamics. did nobody bother to PULL UP GUO CHANGCHENG'S HOOD when he's supposed to be tragically freezing to death?! IT'S RIGHT THERE IN THE SHOT, GUYS. It doesn't cost extra!

Even a minute later when GCC passes out and Chu Shuzhi bundles him up in his own hooded coat, neither of the hoods are placed over his head. It's like they're purely decorative and absolutely not intended to be used for insulation.

#guardian #ava watches guardian #this rant is purely rhetorical because as an actor I know exactly how these things happen (or don't) but it still drives me a bit crazy #i mean if the director doesn't want costumes adjusted between shots b/c of continuity then nobody has the authority to argue w/them #but this is why we have a person whose job on set is continuity (assuming guardian had one of those... which it may not have)#I mean I've gotten in serious trouble on set just b/c I spoke up about safety issues because set culture has incredibly toxic hierarchies #and depending on your department you aren't allowed to speak up if people from certain other departments are on the scene #which is partly because of unions but mostly because producers and directors have high probability of being narcissists #at least as an actor you're allowed to speak which is more than some other staff can do #once when I was working crew i was doing last looks on an actor who wondered aloud about the usage of a word in the script #and since I was familiar with the term I just answered without thinking #and the director heard me and gave me a look that could have fried bacon at thirty paces #because How Dare I speak to an actor on set despite the fact that I was responsible for their entire appearance (on that particular film)#anyway I've only worked in the u.s. and I have no idea how chinese set hierarchies are structured so this is basically irrelevant #also this is so deep in the notes that nobody is reading anymore so

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