CL 9.12

Post-class this week I have found myself overwhelmed by all the information we covered. While my fellow classmates seem to be posting about the actual theorists, one idea that has stuck out to me is the idea of "verimilitude," which, as we discussed, is the "desire to recreate life as much as we possibly can in the artistic world."
I have been thinking about this idea all week, which happens to coincide with one of my dearest friend's trip to LA. He is out there visiting a friend of his who is a head writer for NBC's show "Scrubs," which happens to be my favorite show of all time. While he does not care about the show either way, he knows what a huge fan I am because I have made him watch episode after episode with me whenever we hang out. Since he is in LA and his friend is a head writer, he was asked if he wanted to be an extra on an episode. Sometimes life is so unfair.
So today he called me from the set to tell me all about it, and rub it in my face. As he walked around the set he filled me in on everything he saw. Some highlights included:
"I just saw the Transformers mural in the babies room."
"I just saw Collenal Doctor."
"There is so much food here!"
"I just saw Turk."
"Zach Braff smells like an angel's wings."
While part of his wanderings around the set was to tell me all about it, another part of his mission was to find something he could steal and bring back for me. Is it not suprising that NBC doesn't have better secruity than this? He was trying to find something that wasn't clued down and he could fit in his pocket when he said, "but the weird part is everything is so fake."
He went on to explain how everything was a prop, and nothing was real, even down to the sugar packets on the tables in the cafeteria. While the show is shot in an actual hospital, all of the sets are built inside it, including all of the apartments and even the bar the characters frequent.
This made me think about the idea of verismilitude while I thought about NBC's lack of security. The artistic world of television desires to recreate life in a hopsital as closely as they can to a real hospital, yet in this actual, real hospital there are also apartments, Tranformer murals, bars, and fake sugar packets. But to an "art appreciater" (me) this is lie recreated as much as possible.
While I am a little disappointed to find out the sugar packets are fake, I am still going to allow myself to believe that Sacred Heart Hospital is real- verismilitude wants me to. And in case anyone was wondering, he stole me a stuffed animal unicorn from the "gift shop" of the hospital.