(November 9, 2021 at 10:12 am)Rev. Rye Wrote: Watching the last season of Shameless was kind of surreal, especially when everyone wearing masks kinda made it hard to understand the dialogue, although, let’s be real, finding out that Frank died of COVID was no surprise.
As someone who writes fiction, honestly, there’s currently so much up in the air about how human interactions are going to look when it’s all over that I’m currently holding off on writing fiction that takes place in modern times until we know what they’re going to look like when it’s all over.
Yeah, that was something that occurred to me too. Both of those things.
Like, the oddness of seeing characters interact on screen with surgical masks...it's kind of boring. Because we like expressions and we like faces and we're missing half while the masks are on. And often actors will refuse roles or change roles(ala Will Smith as Deadshot) to make it so they don't have to wear a mask during production because it obscures their face, reducing the recognizability factor.
And that other thing, we're still trying to stay on top of it, trying to make sure the correct information gets out there. But so many people are against it, it must be hard to know what the right thing to say about the pandemic must be, from a capitalist studio/corporate standpoint. Because it's been so polarized, you risk losing a chunk of audience if you take a stance either way. I'm sure that's part of the consideration on whether to include Covid in fictional stories or not.
