I just can't hold my tongue any longer. This has been eating at me for at least a week. I've been watching Dexter, and the sequence with John Lithgow cutting a tree and building a pine casket was just indefensible. The size of the logs that he and Dexter cut in no way matches the size of the wood he uses in the assembly montage. And the shots of him meticulously cutting tenons bore no possible relationship to the geometry of the finished piece. Ruined the suspension of disbelief!
I mean, c'mon! They cut that log into like 2-3 foot lengths maybe 1' diameter at most and loaded them in the back of Lithgow's van! Somehow they were transformed into dry, stable, work-ready lengths of 5+ feet clear pine with a width of at least 18 inches, in maybe a day.
The whole thing is just enraging. A crime against decency.
On the other hand, I'm assume that all of the stuff about forensic science, fingerprint comparison, DNA analysis, general crime scene analysis, and the psychology of psychopathy is 100% realistic, so I just need to let the pesky woodworking stuff go.
@Johnnephew I think you are being reasonable. Ask anyone who watches a film scene in a place they are familiar with. As soon as the film screws up a building, geography, or other significant detail it is hard to get back into the mindset. OTOH, this can be a fun game of “spot the mistake”.