• dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldM
    43·
    5 months ago

    The hallway is no problem. It could just have another 45 in it right behind the kitchen wall. It’d be unorthodox, but I have definitely seen wonkier shit in old apartment buildings. The real problem with it is that it’s not depicted with such a bend at the end of it in the episodes where we do see down the length of the hall.

    But I’m pretty sure the location of the bedroom as depicted to the right of the bathroom and where the bicycle hangs (right?) is also physically impossible. All the floor plan mockups I’ve seen place the bedroom to the left, but I’m pretty sure in the show it was depicted as being on the right.

  • partial_accumen@lemmy.world
    33·
    5 months ago

    Easily explained. Jerry’s apartment exists in a 4 dimensional hypercube. This is clearly shown in the show’s intro when watching the show in 4 dimensions.

  • Pyr_Pressure@lemmy.ca
    12·
    5 months ago

    Why not? I’m not sure why it shows the cabinets going through the wall, but if it were a straight wall couldn’t the hallway just change angle at that point?

  • merc@sh.itjust.works
    12·
    5 months ago

    I wonder what show has put the most effort into having a plausible layout for all the various rooms. I’d imagine a show set on a ship (space or sea) probably has to have a layout that makes sense to people. But, maybe a show like The West Wing would do it, because people are so familiar with many of those actual rooms.

    • junderwood@lemmy.world
      18·
      5 months ago

      I seem to remember Firefly as making an effort to fit all the sets into the shape the ship was supposed to take

      • manny_stillwagon@mander.xyz
        14·
        5 months ago

        Not just the sets but the camera, too. Whedon wanted the audience to feel like they were in the space, so they wouldn’t do the usual tricks of removing walls to set the camera up for stuff like hallway shots. If you watch on the longer shots where they move through the ship you can see the actors turn their shoulders slightly when they pass the camera cause they’re squeezing around the corner of the hallway.

      • merc@sh.itjust.works
        2·
        5 months ago

        That’s funny because Serenity never really made sense to me as a ship. Was it supposed to be a cargo ship? The cargo capacity seems pretty low. It also seems to have too many crew members for a ship of that size, and especially to care for that little cargo. It also had an infirmary, which doesn’t really make sense on a small cargo ship.

        Still, even though the ship didn’t really make sense to me as a viable vehicle for a real business, it did make sense as a bunch of connected rooms, so that part they did well.

    • captainlezbian@lemmy.world
      10·
      5 months ago

      Arrested development probably. They made sure that if someone impacted the set in one episode it remained that way unless corrected on screen

      • Madison420@lemmy.world
        8·
        5 months ago

        They did, they built a literal West wing that is still used for shows and ends up larger so cameras can fit and more people can fit side by side.

        A large, fully connected set of the White House allowed the producers to create shots with very few cuts and long, continuous master shots of staff members conversing as they walk through the hallways.

        https://imgur.com/gallery/west-wing-floor-plan-2023-xQcwmpE

        ^ That person goes very very in depth about the set if you’re at all interested.

  • bulwark@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    5 months ago

    Jerry’s appt exists in an alternate dimension. His door is a portal. The hallway doesn’t exist.

  • ummthatguy@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    5 months ago

    I do trust that you’ll post this over at the Seinfeld community. Been a bit of a lull, not that I’ve done anything to help, but still. Also just discovered this place. What’s the deal with this community?

    • dual_sport_dork 🐧🗡️@lemmy.worldM
      4·
      5 months ago

      What’s the deal with this community?

      I see what you did there.

      In all seriousness, though, I’m going to level with you: I moderate this place, and I don’t have any idea what’s up with this community. I’m just treating it as I found it, as a general purpose catch-all place where anyone can post anything without any particular topic requirements as long as nobody’s being an asshat or attacking others over stupid shit.

      • ummthatguy@lemmy.worldEnglish
        1·
        5 months ago

        Thanks for catching both meanings. It was one of those moments browsing All and seeing an unfamiliar community with a post by someone I usually see elsewhere that caught my attention. So, it’s kinda like 196 or lemmyshitpost. Works for me.