2005 Was Another World
Oct. 10th, 2020 08:22 pm![[personal profile]](https://www.dreamwidth.org/img/silk/identity/user.png){kind=small}
poliphiloTwo incidents in the episode of Midsommer Murders which I watched this evening that wouldn't be allowable in a contemporary TV show:
1. A man is attacked while trying to make a call from the village phone box.
2. A murderer leaves a message in the name of his victim at an airport reception desk. The victim's lover, who is the recipient, draws the conclusion that he is still alive. This is a plot point of middling importance.
In both cases the thing that has rendered the events implausible- going on vanishingly unlikely- is the fact that everybody now has a mobile phone.
The episode is only 15 years old.
1. A man is attacked while trying to make a call from the village phone box.
2. A murderer leaves a message in the name of his victim at an airport reception desk. The victim's lover, who is the recipient, draws the conclusion that he is still alive. This is a plot point of middling importance.
In both cases the thing that has rendered the events implausible- going on vanishingly unlikely- is the fact that everybody now has a mobile phone.
The episode is only 15 years old.
