This happens all the time, I'm sure, but I find it really manipulative.
It's a more bitter version of the axiom where a parental figure who gives a really good piece of advice needs needs to die in the next scene just to ensure the kid remembers it.
There is no reason why it needs to suck as hard as it does—it must be a conscious aesthetic choice.
I don't watch a lot of Canadian shows, but I remember trying to rewatch some early-'eighties CBC stuff I remembered having enjoyed as a kid, and-- it was a very odd, specific version of the Suck Fairy that had visited them-- the scripts and acting were often still quite good, but the lighting and the video quality grated so badly I couldn't get past it. It seemed to cheapen everything: costumes, performances. There were scenes I could tell had been genuine location shots, but the ugly lighting made them feel set-bound anyway.
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It's a more bitter version of the axiom where a parental figure who gives a really good piece of advice needs needs to die in the next scene just to ensure the kid remembers it.
There is no reason why it needs to suck as hard as it does—it must be a conscious aesthetic choice.
I don't watch a lot of Canadian shows, but I remember trying to rewatch some early-'eighties CBC stuff I remembered having enjoyed as a kid, and-- it was a very odd, specific version of the Suck Fairy that had visited them-- the scripts and acting were often still quite good, but the lighting and the video quality grated so badly I couldn't get past it. It seemed to cheapen everything: costumes, performances. There were scenes I could tell had been genuine location shots, but the ugly lighting made them feel set-bound anyway.