Lord of the Rings on TNT

[fox]

I'm looking at Fellowship, and I'll tell you what: not for the first time, I find myself thinking, "They can carve a whole city out of the inside of a mountain, and the dwarves can't come up with a banister?"

Comments

[tigerflower]

M and I have noticed a general lack of handrails in sf/f. When watching movies, we often raise an eyebrow and say "OSHA point!" for each instance of handrail/guardrail/banister-free platforms/stairs/etc. If we made it a drinking game I suspect we'd both need liver transplants.

What is up with the no-banisters thing anyway? The Star Trek reboot was particularly devoid, as I recall.

[fox]

I don't remember a lot of staircases in the reboot, so I'll take your word for it - except that I do remember a bit at the beginning where the commentary points out the handrails on the Kelvin. Along an ordinary walkway, though; they were for holding onto in case of turbulence or, I guess, venting into vacuum.

[tigerflower]

Oh, the Vulcan school-chamber pit thingies, with no railings... the Romulan mining ship with endless multilayered apparently cantilevered platforms, no railings... it started to seem kind of weird to me after a while.

[sanj]

Your pragmatism in the face of spectacle makes me love you a lot.:)

[fox]

Not that standard safety features would have materially improved any of Our Heroes' problems. But still.

[alpheratz]

I think the Dwarves would scoff at any safety features like that, or at best find them unnecessary.