oh, Mentalist, you have failed me

[sid]

I've really been enjoying The Mentalist. Simon Baker is nice to look at and his character is complex like woah. (yeah, have you seen where he sleeps?)

But after last night I can't trust this show.

The wolf is not the bassoon. Peter's grandfather is the bassoon.

I guarantee you that there are five-year-old children who know this. Maybe not many, but they're out there.

Yet obviously "Patrick Jane", Simon Baker, the rest of the cast, the guest stars, the writers, the producers, the camera crew, the director, the lighting people, the grips and the gaffers and the best boys, and WHOEVER THE HELL ELSE was involved in the making of this episode DID NOT KNOW.

And this was not a throwaway line situation - a plot point hinged on Patrick's knowledge of "Peter and the Wolf".

The writer got it wrong, and no one else suspected or tried to verify the information. /o\

And as a bassoon player, I am enraged.  Enraged, I tell you!

Introduction to Peter and the Wolf narrated by David Bowie
 

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[stagnation13.livejournal.com]

It was at that point during the show (and I only watched it because was too lazy to move after NCIS) that my jaw dropped to the ground. Seriously? Seriously.

*shakes head* And I wonder why I don't write for these shows. SHEESH!

[sid]

Come to think of it, they set it up as being arcane knowledge. If not knowing the answer proved that you hadn't attended the concert, then presumably knowing the answer would prove that you had?

I could have been guilty as sin and been nowhere near that concert and still replied, "You're mixing up your double reeds. The duck is the oboe, not the bassoon."

SHEESH indeed!

[stagnation13.livejournal.com]

"You're mixing up your double reeds. The duck is the oboe, not the bassoon."

I am musically inclined, so I don't know if I can say this properly, but there is no way in hell a duck sounds like a bassoon. At all. An oboe fer sure, a clarinet (we're talking single reeds now) does, that's how I remember my brother sounding when he played.

[sid]

Oh, well, that was when he was trying to trick the woman - he never actually believed that the duck was the bassoon.

Because he was convinced it was the WOLF. *snarls*

[stagnation13.livejournal.com]

The wolf.

*headdesk*

*sigh*

Ignorance...makes me...cringe.