Q/. What did you watch last night that I missed?
A/. Well I played with my phone as well but watched Bay of fires then the next thing and played with the phone a lot thru an Agatha Christie. The Australians have gone down the US road on Bay of Fires and everyone or any random person will be shot dead, so good luck to the all-star cast-off actors. Another quaint touch is to make Mystery Bay a bit more interesting - they have Computer generated old buildings. Funny because most Australian towns had fantastic interesting architecture and this town they used for Mystery Bay possibly had them too ! But that kind of architecture just a bit too, how will we say - Australian, for the blow-ins that would have demolished them.
Q/. Were you familiar with any of the creatives on the series?
A/. Only Max Dann (co-writer) - who also wrote Spotswood - because when you work in some Primary or Secondary schools some of the downtime aspects can be boring but looking for Max Dann books in the library was always an option. Any children's author who can deliver the line: "It was Ok though I was nine by then," to justify some immense tragedy is a good writer. Very disappointed that he would have to resort to guns as a drama device; especially in Tasmania, they don't even add drama (I could go on and on but I won't even name names of people in film whose only plot device are guns on a continuum - boring! I'm guessing they had that discussion, "yep, has to be gun," when in fact any clever thing you never saw coming is 100% better, I mean even a gun, you didn't expect but a couple of Russian hitmen?? Better off ..ahh you should know what I mean, anyways 6/10 for the decaying house - I like that. Oh yeah, Bay of Fires does that mean we get a good old Aussie wildfire with volunteer fire fighters going frantic to save all the buildings built basically on top of the exploding eucalyptus gums and as we pan across the bay we see all the towns (those not randomly shot) taking refuge in the sea?
A/. Well I played with my phone as well but watched Bay of fires then the next thing and played with the phone a lot thru an Agatha Christie. The Australians have gone down the US road on Bay of Fires and everyone or any random person will be shot dead, so good luck to the all-star cast-off actors. Another quaint touch is to make Mystery Bay a bit more interesting - they have Computer generated old buildings. Funny because most Australian towns had fantastic interesting architecture and this town they used for Mystery Bay possibly had them too ! But that kind of architecture just a bit too, how will we say - Australian, for the blow-ins that would have demolished them.
Q/. Were you familiar with any of the creatives on the series?
A/. Only Max Dann (co-writer) - who also wrote Spotswood - because when you work in some Primary or Secondary schools some of the downtime aspects can be boring but looking for Max Dann books in the library was always an option. Any children's author who can deliver the line: "It was Ok though I was nine by then," to justify some immense tragedy is a good writer. Very disappointed that he would have to resort to guns as a drama device; especially in Tasmania, they don't even add drama (I could go on and on but I won't even name names of people in film whose only plot device are guns on a continuum - boring! I'm guessing they had that discussion, "yep, has to be gun," when in fact any clever thing you never saw coming is 100% better, I mean even a gun, you didn't expect but a couple of Russian hitmen?? Better off ..ahh you should know what I mean, anyways 6/10 for the decaying house - I like that. Oh yeah, Bay of Fires does that mean we get a good old Aussie wildfire with volunteer fire fighters going frantic to save all the buildings built basically on top of the exploding eucalyptus gums and as we pan across the bay we see all the towns (those not randomly shot) taking refuge in the sea?