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The orphanage is another great example of the show willing to have some depth and complexity. It would be really easy to just make the orphanage an unquestionably evil place filled with unredeemable monsters (except for Mr. Shaibel). But the show doesn't really do that - the orphanage is a bad place, sure, but you get the sense that the lady in charge does care for the kids in some sense, while being super misguided and a product of the times. It's not a good place, but it's inhabited by real people - flawed, but not just completely horrible in every way.
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Zwabu posted:Also Harry shouldn't have had to tell her stuff about Morphy and his sad end, he's easily the most famous American historical chess figure after Fischer and anyone who's slightly into chess knows about him. I think sometimes you need to do things like this for the sake of the viewers, even if it's not perfectly logical. The alternative is for super awkward dialogue like "Oh, do you know about Morphy?" "Oh of course, he's the guy who (go through the whole story)". It's reasonable to assume that Beth knows about him, it's not reasonable to assume that viewers do though, and if you have to sacrifice a bit of realism for the service of what you're trying to get across, so be it.
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I'm not a chess player at all, but I read somewhere that adjournments in general are a relic that doesn't exist anymore. Now that computers can routinely beat the best human players, adjournments would be a big problem (since instead of 5 people giving you their opinions, a computer just tells you how to win). Long matches are solved by tighter time controls rather than allowing for adjournments.
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