Timeline for Why would they show the Hunger Games live?
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| Nov 28, 2014 at 16:27 | answer | added | Comum | timeline score: 4 | |
| Nov 22, 2014 at 10:20 | answer | added | tls | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 20, 2014 at 15:50 | answer | added | tls | timeline score: 0 | |
| Nov 19, 2014 at 21:57 | comment | added | Paul Draper | @Joe, that is true. Nowaday, 5-10 seconds is common. If you're on top of things, it's enough to fix it if something really bad happens, albeit in a very abrupt and conspicuous way. It's a good idea. On the other hand, the Hunger Games could have been "pre-Janet" -- they hadn't had a wardrobe malfunction (yet). | |
| Nov 19, 2014 at 21:50 | comment | added | Joe | @PaulDraper Actually, post-Janet Jackson, we don't actually have truly live TV in many cases; they often show it on a short (5-10 second) delay to allow the producers or their censors to bleep profanities or stop the feed in the case of something they don't want to show. That certainly seems reasonable from a realism perspective here. | |
| Nov 19, 2014 at 20:05 | comment | added | Paul Draper | We have live news, live sports, live Super Bowl half-time, etc. It would be a lot easier on everybody (videographers, commercials, tech crews, players, entertainers, announcers) if live TV didn't exist. But people like it. It gets them involved, which is the point. And so we have it. The capital could pretend it were live, but that secret would have to be known by a non-trivial number of people, and would be be hard to keep. | |
| Nov 19, 2014 at 12:52 | vote | accept | knightscharge | ||
| Nov 19, 2014 at 2:59 | history | tweeted | twitter.com/#!/StackSciFi/status/534903870531452928 | ||
| Nov 18, 2014 at 17:56 | comment | added | Dave Johnson | The riots did not take place in the book at that time. The producers did not want to make the other movies until after they were sure it was going to make money (there have been many YA S/F book to movie flops). As a result, they did not know if there would be another chance to portray the gravity of those actions to the audience. | |
| Nov 18, 2014 at 17:48 | answer | added | Joe L. | timeline score: 44 | |
| Nov 18, 2014 at 17:18 | answer | added | Valorum | timeline score: 39 | |
| Nov 18, 2014 at 17:06 | history | asked | knightscharge | CC BY-SA 3.0 |