Burn Notice 5.01 Company Man
Jun. 24th, 2011 01:02 amYou know, normally Burn Notice coming back would be the main focus of my day, but Meet the Medic was coming out today and I hurt my back something fierce a few weeks ago, both of which kind of one-upped BN when it came to occupying my thoughts. As it turned out, we didn't even remember that today was when it was back until ![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png)
relia was browsing the TV schedule and found out 50 minutes before it was due to come on. Thank god for that, Rel? Then again, USA reruns everything, we would've caught it in short order one way or another.
( My name is Michael Westen. I used to be a vague spoiler. )
Can we talk about the trope of using Latin American countries as playgrounds for spy shows and action movies? Nothing in this episode made me specifically uneasy, but the trope in general does -- I feel like aside from the idea that they are full of "jungle," IE undiscovered land where bad guys can put compounds and people can be stranded, film and TV directors assume that their viewers aren't going to have any factual accuracy alarms going off in their heads and they can treat the laws and infrastructure there with alarming impunity. Whereas in Miami viewers may go "wait, Miami doesn't work that way," who's to say whether Venezuela works that way? It's some far-off Spanish-speaking country! For all they know it works that way! So let's stick all the corruption and firefights in here we like! Haha -- ah, no.
relia was browsing the TV schedule and found out 50 minutes before it was due to come on. Thank god for that, Rel? Then again, USA reruns everything, we would've caught it in short order one way or another.( My name is Michael Westen. I used to be a vague spoiler. )
Can we talk about the trope of using Latin American countries as playgrounds for spy shows and action movies? Nothing in this episode made me specifically uneasy, but the trope in general does -- I feel like aside from the idea that they are full of "jungle," IE undiscovered land where bad guys can put compounds and people can be stranded, film and TV directors assume that their viewers aren't going to have any factual accuracy alarms going off in their heads and they can treat the laws and infrastructure there with alarming impunity. Whereas in Miami viewers may go "wait, Miami doesn't work that way," who's to say whether Venezuela works that way? It's some far-off Spanish-speaking country! For all they know it works that way! So let's stick all the corruption and firefights in here we like! Haha -- ah, no.
