{"id":14699,"date":"2023-02-13T10:00:51","date_gmt":"2023-02-13T16:00:51","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/?p=14699"},"modified":"2023-02-12T22:47:36","modified_gmt":"2023-02-13T04:47:36","slug":"millions-for-special-effects-but-not-one-cent-for-proofreading","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2023\/02\/millions-for-special-effects-but-not-one-cent-for-proofreading\/","title":{"rendered":"Millions for special effects, but not one cent for proofreading"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Forty seconds into <a href=\"https:\/\/www.youtube.com\/watch?v=eAJDnnUMHYA\">this trailer for SyFy&#8217;s &#8220;The Ark&#8221;<\/a> \u2014 it&#8217;s hard to tell because it&#8217;s small and pausing on YouTube puts the video controls over it \u2014 the word &#8220;maintenance&#8221; is misspelled on an ID badge.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14700\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/syfy_arkmaint.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"158\" height=\"249\" \/><\/p>\n<p>This is not the first big-budget production to screw up on the little things. &#8220;Star Trek: Discovery&#8221; \u2014 which I only watched because CBS aired Season 1 (2017) during the pandemic \u2014 misspelled &#8220;protocols.&#8221; Put it in the okudagram hall of shame.<\/p>\n<p><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone size-full wp-image-14701\" src=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/std_protocols.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"412\" height=\"241\" srcset=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/std_protocols.jpg 412w, http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/02\/std_protocols-300x175.jpg 300w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 412px) 100vw, 412px\" \/><\/p>\n<p>(Also, the word &#8220;representative&#8221; is misspelled in a hallway in a quick scene in &#8220;Joker&#8221;, but I don&#8217;t have a screengrab of that.)<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2022\/02\/millions-for-graphics-but-not-one-cent-for-proofreading\/\">(Related post.)<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Forty seconds into this trailer for SyFy&#8217;s &#8220;The Ark&#8221; \u2014 it&#8217;s hard to tell because it&#8217;s small and pausing on YouTube puts the video controls over it \u2014 the word &#8220;maintenance&#8221; is misspelled on an ID badge. This is not &hellip; <a href=\"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/2023\/02\/millions-for-special-effects-but-not-one-cent-for-proofreading\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":"","_links_to":"","_links_to_target":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-14699","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14699","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=14699"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14699\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":14708,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/14699\/revisions\/14708"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=14699"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=14699"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/iowahighwayends.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=14699"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}