Top Five meme answers - cities
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leesa_perrie.
Leesa asked about cities but I don't actually like cities. I much prefer towns and villages. So I'm going for favourite cities on TV/in films.
*Not to be taken seriously.*
1. London. Actually, London would qualify as a favourite city based on its history. But it's the city of Sherlock Holmes, The Professionals, Dempsey and Makepeace, with a history of Upstairs, Dowstairs and You Rang, M'Lord? And thousands of other series, films, and books. If it's set in the UK, it's probably in London. I'm surprised tourists manage to find their way anywhere else.
2. LA. I've seen a lot of US movies and shows. If I based my knowledge of geography on them, I'd be convinced the US consists of LA, New York, Washington DC (but only for politics), and tiny towns. I'd also be convinced that everything exciting happens in LA.
3. New York. This is the place where chefs, waitresses, and masseurs can afford really nice apartments. This is where Friends can afford to spend most of their lives sitting in coffee shops and not get fired.
4. Paris (France, not Texas.) The most romantic place on earth.
5. Sydney, Australia. Where everyone drinks beer, wears hats, and has an amazingly casual attitude over the myriad of poisonous creatures, plants, and trees that surround them.
leesa_perrie.Leesa asked about cities but I don't actually like cities. I much prefer towns and villages. So I'm going for favourite cities on TV/in films.
*Not to be taken seriously.*
1. London. Actually, London would qualify as a favourite city based on its history. But it's the city of Sherlock Holmes, The Professionals, Dempsey and Makepeace, with a history of Upstairs, Dowstairs and You Rang, M'Lord? And thousands of other series, films, and books. If it's set in the UK, it's probably in London. I'm surprised tourists manage to find their way anywhere else.
2. LA. I've seen a lot of US movies and shows. If I based my knowledge of geography on them, I'd be convinced the US consists of LA, New York, Washington DC (but only for politics), and tiny towns. I'd also be convinced that everything exciting happens in LA.
3. New York. This is the place where chefs, waitresses, and masseurs can afford really nice apartments. This is where Friends can afford to spend most of their lives sitting in coffee shops and not get fired.
4. Paris (France, not Texas.) The most romantic place on earth.
5. Sydney, Australia. Where everyone drinks beer, wears hats, and has an amazingly casual attitude over the myriad of poisonous creatures, plants, and trees that surround them.
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Date: 2017-01-19 04:54 pm (UTC)New York is my favourite city, mainly because it's the only one I've been to that I liked and didn't mind the crowds in - and it has the Chrysler Building, pretty much my fav building in the whole world!!
Winchester is the only other city (other than Derby) I've been to that I think I could actually live in. It just had a nice feel to it.
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Date: 2017-01-19 05:59 pm (UTC)Just high fiving you for the Chrysler Building - me too! I suffered love at first sight, and never recovered. That building is just beautiful!
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Date: 2017-01-19 05:40 pm (UTC)THere are, on rare occasions, some places in the UK that aren't London, notably Cardiff and Yorkshire. Manchester may also exist from time to time. I don't know where the rest of us live, it's a mystery. Possibly in idyllic villages filled with cottages, horrible murders, cricket, and local yokels.
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Date: 2017-01-19 10:04 pm (UTC)Still, there's one show that surely can't be moved... 'Shetland'!!
Then again...
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Date: 2017-01-20 12:17 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-01-20 12:17 pm (UTC)I never knew that about Grange Hill! Didn't anyone notice the change of accent?
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Date: 2017-01-21 12:38 am (UTC)As to GH, I believe they just didn't address the move at all, and hoped nobody would notice anything. It happened because Phil Redmond (Mr Brookside) created the show originally, and came back for the last couple of years to revamp it. For some reason he decided to take it to Liverpool, and presumably nobody was watching anymore, so nobody cared! Tucker guested in the final episode, and apparently he didn't notice either. Mind you, he never did pay much attention in school...
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Date: 2017-01-21 08:37 am (UTC)So, more inclusive = move a stack of stuff to Manchester. That makes sense. Not.
Ha! I knew my map was true!
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Date: 2017-01-19 07:38 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-01-19 05:58 pm (UTC)Excellent answers! Especially your comment on London - it does feel like it's pretty much the only city in Britain *g*
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Date: 2017-01-19 06:21 pm (UTC)(no subject)
Date: 2017-01-19 10:29 pm (UTC)2. LA. I've seen a lot of US movies and shows. If I based my knowledge of geography on them, I'd be convinced the US consists of LA, New York, Washington DC (but only for politics), and tiny towns. I'd also be convinced that everything exciting happens in LA.
I should dredge up an entry I did years ago about how people's towns/areas are portrayed. That IS pretty accurate to TV! I actually am kind of sick of everything happening in those places, though - not even out of envy, just... it's cliche. Plus, and I have issues with this in London too (so there you go), sometimes really big things will happen in those cities, which makes it really really obvious it's just a show/movie/book because otherwise, I mean... that big thing didn't happen. With the exception of stuff like Doctor Who where it's more obviously an AU of our own world, so to speak.
I actually prefer towns and villages too. I think I liked Bath so much when I visited the UK because even though it's still technically a city, it felt like a town. I loved things about London, but London's so... busy. Plus, when you're a tourist in London, you're very obviously in the touristy hub. I felt like I was more immersed in "normalcy" in Bath, even if we did go to a museum.
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Date: 2017-01-20 12:22 pm (UTC)(I would like to visit Bath one day. It certainly looks beautiful.)
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Date: 2017-01-21 08:22 pm (UTC)New York City - we were there for a few days after Christmas, and enjoyed it thoroughly, and were very happy to get back to our little town. We've been there several times, but I never cease to marvel about how peopley it is. Every restaurant we went to was about a quarter (or less!) the size that the equivalent would be in Houston, and jam-packed; I was constantly stepping sideways between tables and thinking of the fellow in "All Creatures" who complained about having to take "big steps and little 'uns." Of course, that's just Manhattan, which is pretty much the only New York City I ever see on TV. I've been to other parts of NYC and some of them are very different.
Speaking of Houston - it occasionally pops up in TV shows, but I don't think they're ever actually filmed in Houston. Otherwise, there would never have been a gripping chase scene in Houston Knights through the alleys of downtown Houston. Houston has no alleys, downtown or otherwise.
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Date: 2017-01-22 04:36 pm (UTC)West Wing and every film about the President.
It's crazy, isn't it? The US is huge...but not in TV-land.