• AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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    1911 months ago

    What I found most concerning about this episode was that the refugee encampments, which were supposed to represent ultimate poverty, despair, and oppression, look a damned sight nicer than bad areas in San Francisco and Los Angeles today.

    • Flying SquidOP
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      1111 months ago

      I don’t know that I’d go that far.

        • Flying SquidOP
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          811 months ago

          I guess I would call it as close to that as TV gets. I don’t think I would really describe it as nicer, certainly not a damned sight nicer, just not put together by a set designer and limited by a budget that restricted the number of extras they could hire.

          • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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            11 months ago

            I guess what the pictures don’t convey is how fucked up the people are, and how awful the ambient sound and sights are. This is a video someone made of Philadelphia at night, and it’s quite shocking.

            Edit: they also don’t convey the scope of the problem. This homeless in L.A. goes on for mile after mile. There’s a video out there of someone driving through Skid Row in L.A. and it’s like 10 miles long. It is absolutely unbelievable to me how big the problem is.

            • Flying SquidOP
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              311 months ago

              I’m not trying to say it isn’t awful. I’m trying to say that they would have made it look that awful if they could have.

              • AwkwardLookMonkeyPuppet
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                11 months ago

                Oh, I gotcha now. Yes, I guess it’s really just too clean, and the people too sane, which is a result of it being thrown together in under a week, on a limited budget.

                Edit: also because it’s a G rated TV show.

                • @[email protected]
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                  11 months ago

                  Also the show is worse in some ways. They were forced into camps that they could not leave, with no medical care, limited food, no jobs/etc.

                  That would definitely be some peoples preference for the current homeless, forcing undesirables into internment camps instead of dealing with the issue systemically, but that was part of the horror of the “show” setup.