So, I was watching Heroes.
Nov. 21st, 2007 10:19 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
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And last season was all about a nuclear holocaust in, uh, my city, and this year is all about a worldwide plague (featuring scenes of, wow, my city), and during the show is a commercial about some disaster film featuring, imagine that, scenes of my own city.
I am so sick of people destroying New York.
Every disaster film ever seems to feature NYC getting destroyed. Even if it's the entire world getting destroyed, they show footage of New York. Tidal waves crashing into the WTC (back when there was one, of course - I could never watch promos for that one, even before 9/11), aliens shooting the Statue of Liberty, I don't know. And endless scenes, of course, of abandoned New York City streets.
Why don't they pick on some other city for a change? How about Des Moines? I hear Des Moines is nice this time of year. Or Vancouver! They do all their filming in Vancouver anyway, why not just admit it? Or let's do something really crazy and do a city like New Delhi! Lots of people live in New Delhi! Or if you need that New York State atmosphere, you could always go for Buffalo. Lots of good jokes about Buffalo, and if it's a nuclear winter, well, there's always snow in Buffalo. Don't have to edit it in or fabricate it, it's just there.
That health teacher I mentioned a while back, that was in 2001. And after the disaster (which is to say, for very nearly the entire term), he referred to the WTC site (when it came up, which was more often than reasonable, at least after the first couple of months) as "Ground Hero" Really stressed that h in it, and it used to really annoy me. I don't even like saying "Ground Zero" and simply refer to it as the World Trade Center. That's what I've always called it, and until something else is there I see no reason to stop. Everybody knows what I mean anyway. I have a point with this paragraph, and that point is... uh... well, I guess it's just that it's really annoying and everybody should go destroy something else for a change the end.
(It's more than annoying. Like I said, I never could watch films which showed my city getting destroyed. This is my city! Hurts my very heart. Destroy the rest of the country, destroy the world, have the entire universe prematurely implode, but please show footage from somewhere else, thanks. That's all I want.
I am so sick of people destroying New York.
Every disaster film ever seems to feature NYC getting destroyed. Even if it's the entire world getting destroyed, they show footage of New York. Tidal waves crashing into the WTC (back when there was one, of course - I could never watch promos for that one, even before 9/11), aliens shooting the Statue of Liberty, I don't know. And endless scenes, of course, of abandoned New York City streets.
Why don't they pick on some other city for a change? How about Des Moines? I hear Des Moines is nice this time of year. Or Vancouver! They do all their filming in Vancouver anyway, why not just admit it? Or let's do something really crazy and do a city like New Delhi! Lots of people live in New Delhi! Or if you need that New York State atmosphere, you could always go for Buffalo. Lots of good jokes about Buffalo, and if it's a nuclear winter, well, there's always snow in Buffalo. Don't have to edit it in or fabricate it, it's just there.
That health teacher I mentioned a while back, that was in 2001. And after the disaster (which is to say, for very nearly the entire term), he referred to the WTC site (when it came up, which was more often than reasonable, at least after the first couple of months) as "Ground Hero" Really stressed that h in it, and it used to really annoy me. I don't even like saying "Ground Zero" and simply refer to it as the World Trade Center. That's what I've always called it, and until something else is there I see no reason to stop. Everybody knows what I mean anyway. I have a point with this paragraph, and that point is... uh... well, I guess it's just that it's really annoying and everybody should go destroy something else for a change the end.
(It's more than annoying. Like I said, I never could watch films which showed my city getting destroyed. This is my city! Hurts my very heart. Destroy the rest of the country, destroy the world, have the entire universe prematurely implode, but please show footage from somewhere else, thanks. That's all I want.
