If they kicked people out of their homes, they’d be terrible, unlikable people. Which is the point - they’re not. They’re spoiled, and they need to learn how to live around “normal” people and build relationships and depend on people and rely on each other for support, but they’re not terrible people.
Is it a realistic plotline? Nah, but neither is Grey’s Anatony killing off every character and having terrorism and mass destruction in every single season, but that seems to keep a primetime slot. I don’t think the town ownership factor really even matters, it’s just the backdrop, but I guess if you can’t get behind it, you can’t get behind it. People (don’t) like what they (don’t) like.
Well, like I said to Lucy, it’s actually not a trivial backdrop, since they wrote it into the plot further down.
But even if we go by your logic, the thing about Grey’s Anatomy is that everything is in the “possible” realm.
Owning a town, to the more knowledgeable, might actually be “impossible”. For me, I have no idea if that’s possible or not, so it didn’t affect my enjoyment at all. But if you know that it’s literally impossible to own a town, I can see how it affects one’s enjoyment of the show.
It’ll be like if a doctor was watching Grey’s Anatomy and they saved a patient using a procedure that is completely wrong.
I don’t think it’s technically impossible. It’s just crazy to actually do for anything but a nearly empty town. You’d literally have to go through each asset and buy them up, one by one. Much like Walt Disney did in secret to build Disney World.
Just guessing here, but i assume it’s like a factory town. Where the company build a factory and buys up all the land and builds housing and a store…
They own all the land. But there are already people living in all the nice places to live, many with long term leases. (And 100 year leases are a thing, fwiw. Lots of people “own” vacation homes on land that belongs to a timber company, for instance, but they have a 100 year lease on the plot their house sits on.) So they are acknowledged as landlords, but the only available housing they can use is in the crappy motel.
Yeah, I disagree there. I have watched the show four times and them trying to sell the town in the first season barely even registered as something that happened for me, had to go back and read through the episode synopses. And it certainly isn’t the point of the show, which is driven by the characters and not the circumstances.
You can say that about Grey’s Anatomy as well. That it’s about the characters and their scandals and romance and drama. But if you write a medical procedure into the plot that is literally not a thing, people would be like wtf.
Those people would be ignorant of the medical procedure. Similar to how I don’t really know whether or not owning a town is possible, so I give it the benefit of the doubt and still enjoy the show.
If you know it’s the wrong medical procedure, I guarantee it’d bother you. If you know owning a town creates plot holes, it’ll bother you too.
Gilmore Girls talks about actuarial tables as if they’re able to be used for individual people, and it brings them up more than once. Totally wrong, but it doesn’t bother me at all, I just find it humorous.
CHASE: It’s really fascinating stuff.
EMILY: It sounds it. Tell us more.
CHASE: Well, we’re in the middle of building new statistical models that let us do a better job at predicting death than we’ve ever been able to do before. Richard, you might find this interesting.
RICHARD: Well, I’ve never been one for sitting at a computer building models, Chase. I’m a client contact man myself.
CHASE: But these models give you a better product to sell to those clients.
EMILY: That does sound interesting.
CHASE: Oh it is. In fact, if you were to answer a few simple questions for me, I could practically pinpoint the day you’re going to die.
And:
EMILY: Do you know when you will die? Not offhand. Richard had an actuarial life table for all the family members, including you. A prediction of everybody’s day of death. It’s remarkably accurate. He included some close friends, too. He nailed Stuart Carrington’s death within an hour. He was so proud of that.
LUKE: That’s a great accomplishment.
EMILY: This is your file.
LUKE: I’ve got a file?
EMILY: You got some time left.
LUKE: Well, good.
EMILY: You’re to use this information for your life insurance needs. Again, you can’t leave my daughter high and dry. I’ll photocopy it for you, and you can go from there.
LUKE: I’ll mark the date in my calendar.
Anyway, Schitt’s Creek is objectively delightful, I die on this hill.
