{"id":1994,"date":"2007-07-14T11:58:31","date_gmt":"2007-07-14T19:58:31","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.ogre.nu\/wp\/?p=1994"},"modified":"2007-07-14T12:12:04","modified_gmt":"2007-07-14T20:12:04","slug":"the-danger-of-originality","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1994","title":{"rendered":"the danger of originality"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been catching up on <a href=\"http:\/\/www.nbc.com\/Video\/rewind\/full_episodes\/heroes_01.shtml\"><i>Heroes<\/i><\/a> (the link is to the first episode on NBC&#8217;s website).  Episode 18 &#8220;Parasite&#8221; has an <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Establishing_shot\">establishing shot<\/a> of <a href=\"http:\/\/en.wikipedia.org\/wiki\/Las_Vegas_Strip\">Las Vegas<\/a>, an aerial view in daylight, which I did not recognize because establishing shots of Las Vegas are traditionally street-level and nocturnal, emphasizing the blinkenlights.  (Though if the shot were longer I might guess it from the eccentric architecture and the distant mountains.)  I knew it was Vegas because Hiro, last seen there, was in the next shot.  I wonder what fraction of the viewers were as clueless as I was.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I&#8217;ve been catching up on Heroes (the link is to the first episode on NBC&#8217;s website). Episode 18 &#8220;Parasite&#8221; has an establishing shot of Las Vegas, an aerial view in daylight, which I did not recognize because establishing shots of &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/?p=1994\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[23],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-1994","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-cinema"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1994"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1994\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1994"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1994"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/bendwavy.org\/wp\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1994"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}