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As I continue watching This Old House - I've now made it back to 2009 - I occasionally tweet observations. Most of those are mostly-not-serious ones about slashing (it just is unnatural to watch this much of one show without shipping something!). Fortunately I haven't had space to include a hashtag every time (I use these to collect observations later when I want to make a blog post about it), because last night one of the producers replied to me. <.<
The host visited a historic house that had been made into a museum and the architect who was guiding the tour explained that as they stepped over the threshold into the museum they were "literally stepping back" 200 years into the past, to which the host replied something like "So this is a literal time machine..."
I tweeted some classic pedantry in response, but mainly because this is one of those rare instances of 'literally' usage that (figuratively) really makes life worth living (others have included 'my heart was literally in my throat' and 'literally jumping out of my skin', but this is even better really). Talk about your unexpected genre crossovers.
So the producer's reply was just that they didn't have the budget to rent a DeLorean.
I guess I'm just used to popular shows with big fandoms where you can't really expect a reply even when you directly @ someone, let alone when you just mention the show by name. But while This Old House may have a dedicated fan following, I can see how most of it would not be very active on Twitter...
The host visited a historic house that had been made into a museum and the architect who was guiding the tour explained that as they stepped over the threshold into the museum they were "literally stepping back" 200 years into the past, to which the host replied something like "So this is a literal time machine..."
I tweeted some classic pedantry in response, but mainly because this is one of those rare instances of 'literally' usage that (figuratively) really makes life worth living (others have included 'my heart was literally in my throat' and 'literally jumping out of my skin', but this is even better really). Talk about your unexpected genre crossovers.
So the producer's reply was just that they didn't have the budget to rent a DeLorean.
I guess I'm just used to popular shows with big fandoms where you can't really expect a reply even when you directly @ someone, let alone when you just mention the show by name. But while This Old House may have a dedicated fan following, I can see how most of it would not be very active on Twitter...
