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Originally Posted by ragedogg69
This reminds me of what a CSI writer said an executive told him. He had to dumb down every script he submitted because they had to be easy enough to follow, that a housewife doing the dishes with her back to the TV could follow. It made me mad reading that, but every once in a while I find myself doing just that. So it kinda makes sense. Most cable shows do not allow that.
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I find myself occasionally caught flat-footed when a exposition-heavy show all of the sudden goes montage and I'm in another room wondering what's going on.
I usually don't back-burner stupid shows, I back burner exposition heavy shows, such as legal procedurals, L&O and the like. 'Dumb' shows like like CSI too regularly go to montage for the evidence collection and analysis, so you miss most of the value of the show if you just key into the summation 10 minutes later. The interest is visual as they lay out the investigative techniques, and you miss all that doing dishes.