Sounds like part of the fun really *is* nit-picking! And I am glad that apparently the show is fun on its own, with Bonus!mental stimulation from figuring out where it's *so wrong*! I've only been to DC once, but the idea of driving almost anywhere (unless you're in, say, a presidential motorcade) does strike me as a terrible plan. (Taking a brief taxi trip when I discovered that the Sunday Metro service was not the same as other-day Metro service was bad enough!
Your comment prompted me to do research--not much ;) --and I discovered that the first bits of the Metro opened for business in 1973, and the first bits of the Metrorail opened in 1976. Pretty speedy, really!
I wonder what the thinking behind some of the choices made by the producer(s), writers, location scouts, whomever was on a lot of these! I mean, okay, bigger house than makes sense probably makes filming a bit easier, but why not make the claimed location something that matches with the architecture? Even if the architecture and resulting claimed location would be really crummy for keeping a low profile. ;)
And I love that Mr Spy took a 14-mile run and wasn't even winded at the end of it. Apparently he's *really* in shape. And likes running places without multi-use trails. (Since you're mentioning it, I am guessing that the trail's been there since at least the '80s!)
(Edited because auto-correct was "helping" too much ;p)
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Your comment prompted me to do research--not much ;) --and I discovered that the first bits of the Metro opened for business in 1973, and the first bits of the Metrorail opened in 1976. Pretty speedy, really!
I wonder what the thinking behind some of the choices made by the producer(s), writers, location scouts, whomever was on a lot of these! I mean, okay, bigger house than makes sense probably makes filming a bit easier, but why not make the claimed location something that matches with the architecture? Even if the architecture and resulting claimed location would be really crummy for keeping a low profile. ;)
And I love that Mr Spy took a 14-mile run and wasn't even winded at the end of it. Apparently he's *really* in shape. And likes running places without multi-use trails. (Since you're mentioning it, I am guessing that the trail's been there since at least the '80s!)
(Edited because auto-correct was "helping" too much ;p)