1923 Thud

Wednesday, July 23, 2008

TV is on. I don't know what the program is, but I glanced up as the guy in the lab says that there's "white pine sap on the murder weapon."

The female cop goes outside, finds an evergreen tree, and deduces that the murder climbed up the tree to get to the attic window. She says, "... and this is an eastern white pine."

The camera pans up through the tree, and it's obviously a fir, not a pine, let alone an eastern white pine. White pines have very long needles in clusters of five. Firs have short individual needles.

Do they really think no one in the audience knows the difference? I guess it's not so obvious to Hollwood types. But would it have been so difficult to find a white pine for the closeups?

Thud.
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