 John the OFM  | 31 May 2013 8:41 p.m. PST |
A still photo of an anonymous young Yankee.
A voice over the photo: "And then the rebels killed me, Ma!"
Cut to a stock photo of a dead Johnnie.
Same voice: "John Beachum Pennyworth, July 4, 1863." Cue the sad banjo music. |
| kyoteblue | 31 May 2013 8:49 p.m. PST |
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| andygamer | 31 May 2013 9:21 p.m. PST |
I think anything like that being used too often becomes annoying, John. Personally, I hate them having actors act the role of the content of a person's letter whether of a major player or a private soldier instead of just having a narrator quote it directly. Most of the time I find them emoting horribly or acting it in the "wrong voice" like having the actor read/act it in an angry voice when I doubt the letter was written in anger. Not completely related but I also dislike commercial television documentaries that recap everything we saw four minutes ago before the commercials ran when they return from the commercial break. |
| Maddaz111 | 01 Jun 2013 2:03 a.m. PST |
Facts you didn't know… How do you know what the viewer knows…. eh ? the truth about (something) – a documentary that bangs on about a pet theory/hypothesis but has the talking heads only argue one side, leaving all alternatives unexplored. I don't like the foreshadowing before advert breaks, or the recap after either. |
| andygamer | 01 Jun 2013 7:56 a.m. PST |
Ah, yes, the foreshadowing too. |
| Space Monkey | 01 Jun 2013 11:11 a.m. PST |
Between the adverts, foreshadowing and recaps there is actually only about 10 minutes of actual content… and that is mostly the yammering of unsupported theory bit. |
| StarfuryXL5 | 01 Jun 2013 9:31 p.m. PST |
Reality shows do that, too. |
| Streitax | 02 Jun 2013 12:06 p.m. PST |
But we know reality shows are not, documentaries are supposed to be about what happened and why and what it all meant. I guess there is a different reality for all historical events depending on which side of the fence you ended up on. |
| Militia Pete | 03 Jun 2013 4:51 a.m. PST |
I thought you were going to say mermaids. Specifically, the hoax of boys finding a mermaid on the beach and run off after it was found that it was not dead. Kids did not say "Holy (insert your bleep)" then ran off. Yea, dead give away. |
| Bowman | 09 Jun 2013 1:17 p.m. PST |
You need to watch better documentaries. I suggest Werner Herzog's "Encounters at the End of the World" and "Cave of Forgotten Dreams" for starters. |
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