It's not necessarily not recognizing DC locations; I am familiar with the necessities of finding somewhere to film. It's just that a lot of the places that they name (see: Dupont Circle, above) don't make sense for the kind of activity that they have taking place there. At least, not in the 1980s. Like, great place for a starving artist or a gay bar, terrible place for a travel agency unless you actually just want to spy on Embassy Row…which doesn't look suspicious *at all*.
And there is just a part of me that wishes that they could have some sort of scenes involving DC landmarks. Like, not the fancy-pants tourist landmarks that are made to look like Greco-Roman temples, but things that I am familiar with as someone from DC. Like Ben's Chili Bowl, home of the most delicious half smoke ever. Things like that.
Also also, another thing that I just thought of that's inconsistent and *niggling* me: in the first episode there's the whole *send the Soviet defector off on a shipping boat*. Except we don't have boats that big that fit up the Potomac. (Like, Georgetown and Alexandria were slave ports, but they had smaller boats for their shipping, for realz, like the 17th-18th century boats). Currently, our main boats are "eat dinner and watch the sunset over monuments" boats and "take the ferry from Alexandria to National Harbor." Massive ships would get stuck. It's just stuff like that which pushes my buttons and pushes me out of the "this show seems realistic" part of the show and into the "now I am not thinking that the show is realistic and I want to punch someone who made these decisions because otherwise this would be a fun show for me to watch".
I guess it also pushes my buttons because there is an influx of "young" people moving here to find jobs, which is fine, except housing shortage and increased property taxes, so there are hundreds of families living in the old DC General Hospital. And the mayor wants to make it so the city can turn away people who might be able to go somewhere else even on nights when it's freezing (and even if that other place is "back to an abusive household"). Somehow this feels connected in my brain? Like, you want to have the image of DC, but you don't want the nitty-gritty of actual DC and dealing with motorcades interfering with your filming. IDEK, it's not really logical at this point. But also: filming in DC = more tax money in DC = possible money for helping people who are homeless. It just feels somewhat exploitative…"I will call this DC and make money off the fact that it's called DC and misrepresent what DC is/was like, but actually I am doing nothing to help actual DC."
Aaaaand names: I have aphasia from my meds and it makes it really hard to remember words sometimes.
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And there is just a part of me that wishes that they could have some sort of scenes involving DC landmarks. Like, not the fancy-pants tourist landmarks that are made to look like Greco-Roman temples, but things that I am familiar with as someone from DC. Like Ben's Chili Bowl, home of the most delicious half smoke ever. Things like that.
Also also, another thing that I just thought of that's inconsistent and *niggling* me: in the first episode there's the whole *send the Soviet defector off on a shipping boat*. Except we don't have boats that big that fit up the Potomac. (Like, Georgetown and Alexandria were slave ports, but they had smaller boats for their shipping, for realz, like the 17th-18th century boats). Currently, our main boats are "eat dinner and watch the sunset over monuments" boats and "take the ferry from Alexandria to National Harbor." Massive ships would get stuck. It's just stuff like that which pushes my buttons and pushes me out of the "this show seems realistic" part of the show and into the "now I am not thinking that the show is realistic and I want to punch someone who made these decisions because otherwise this would be a fun show for me to watch".
I guess it also pushes my buttons because there is an influx of "young" people moving here to find jobs, which is fine, except housing shortage and increased property taxes, so there are hundreds of families living in the old DC General Hospital. And the mayor wants to make it so the city can turn away people who might be able to go somewhere else even on nights when it's freezing (and even if that other place is "back to an abusive household"). Somehow this feels connected in my brain? Like, you want to have the image of DC, but you don't want the nitty-gritty of actual DC and dealing with motorcades interfering with your filming. IDEK, it's not really logical at this point. But also: filming in DC = more tax money in DC = possible money for helping people who are homeless. It just feels somewhat exploitative…"I will call this DC and make money off the fact that it's called DC and misrepresent what DC is/was like, but actually I am doing nothing to help actual DC."
Aaaaand names: I have aphasia from my meds and it makes it really hard to remember words sometimes.