Board Thread:False Info and Speculative Discussion/@comment-24732895-20140910035928/@comment-6383956-20140918033436

Paul, I'm pretty sure there's been a couple episodes that went for more than a month. As I recall, that was because there was traveling to and from Chicago and wherever the case of the week was.

And it isn't "hyper-realism". Honestly, how do you have so much trouble paying attention to conversations that are written out in front of you? It's standard to assume that the fictional world is based in the real world.

In Lord of the Rings, why are the characters able to stay on the ground? They never say, ergo it is assumed to be gravity.

Conversely, if a legal drama says "that'll take two days" and in the real world it takes three months, then this is an area where the fictional world differs from the real one.

But it's bad writing to have things that are so far flung from reality and never address it in any way. Because, a) all fiction works in the way I described above and b) it's really not difficult to have a half sentence of exposition in the dialogue. And, yes, most shows have areas where they're not realistic, but most shows are able and willing to put in that half-sentence of exposition. Teen Wolf is apparently too busy with all the explanation of things that are the same as they are in the real world that we could just Google if we really wanted to.

(PS Just watched a clip of Walter falling in the episode you're talking about and he didn't fall very far, and didn't land on his head? Where did they mess up the physics?)