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Eight episodes in and we're loving it. BUT - one big error that has annoyed me: when The Queen visits Belfast she flies in a Vickers Viscount which is a turboprop aircraft and makes a high pitched jet like noise but they dubbed the sound track of an old piston aircraft. To non aviation types, this would be like showing a (traditional) F1 car with the soundtrack of a diesel bus.
willy wombat said:
Eight episodes in and we're loving it. BUT - one big error that has annoyed me: when The Queen visits Belfast she flies in a Vickers Viscount which is a turboprop aircraft and makes a high pitched jet like noise but they dubbed the sound track of an old piston aircraft. To non aviation types, this would be like showing a (traditional) F1 car with the soundtrack of a diesel bus.
I also heard some library music that was written in the last 10 years (pretending to be old).Still, it's only saddos like you and me that notice!
willy wombat said:
Eight episodes in and we're loving it. BUT - one big error that has annoyed me: when The Queen visits Belfast she flies in a Vickers Viscount which is a turboprop aircraft and makes a high pitched jet like noise but they dubbed the sound track of an old piston aircraft. To non aviation types, this would be like showing a (traditional) F1 car with the soundtrack of a diesel bus.
They did the same on the film Airplane. It was a jet engine, but sounded like a propeller. This was initially done as a jet engine noise was not allowed. But it just added to the hilarity of the film. 
4737 Carlin said:
EarlOfHazard said:
They did the same on the film Airplane. It was a jet engine, but sounded like a propeller. This was initially done as a jet engine noise was not allowed.
not allowed? By whom and why? Thanks.
And the sound clip of the props, was taken from the film -called Zero Hour- that Airplane was the spoof of. In that film, it was a propeller plane.
EarlOfHazard said:
And the sound clip of the props, was taken from the film -called Zero Hour- that Airplane was the spoof of. In that film, it was a propeller plane.
Can you give me an impression of a Jet Airliner? No, sorry, my training is in psychiatry. (and, yes, I know that was Airplane II).
willy wombat said:
Eight episodes in and we're loving it. BUT - one big error that has annoyed me: when The Queen visits Belfast she flies in a Vickers Viscount which is a turboprop aircraft and makes a high pitched jet like noise but they dubbed the sound track of an old piston aircraft. To non aviation types, this would be like showing a (traditional) F1 car with the soundtrack of a diesel bus.
Also the formation of Lancasters flying over Windsor, reasonable engine noise but it was supposed to be 1940.Worth a bump for anyone who hasn't seen it.
IMO this is the best current TV show.
The media focused on the production values and budget, which are indeed impressive, but it is the quality of the writing that most impresses.
From the big things, like an entire episode centred around a painting when of course it was about far more than that, to the small like the establishing of place and time in virtually every scene, and how a character like Tommy becomes fully human rather than the cartoon villain that most TV shows would have made him.
When it is of this quality TV clearly surpasses film.
IMO this is the best current TV show.
The media focused on the production values and budget, which are indeed impressive, but it is the quality of the writing that most impresses.
From the big things, like an entire episode centred around a painting when of course it was about far more than that, to the small like the establishing of place and time in virtually every scene, and how a character like Tommy becomes fully human rather than the cartoon villain that most TV shows would have made him.
When it is of this quality TV clearly surpasses film.
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