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by buildbot 21 days ago
It was very fun to attend UBC then immediately start recognizing bits of the campus in many TV shows - Man in High Castle, Stargate, Battlestar, and many others.

They have long since fixed it but there used to be an absolutely awful/hilarious set of street view captures for UBC that were taken by accident during filming for Man in the High Castle…the entire main mall had Nazi flags up. https://ubyssey.ca/humour/ubc-nazi-territory-street-view/

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Same for SFU students too especially the mountain top Burnaby campus.
SFU's Burnaby campus was hugely present in the X-Files years shot in Canada. The brutalist architecture of Arthur Erickson and Geoffrey Massey lent itself perfectly to the scifi-noir vibe.