Quote:Don't let it get to you. Just think about the detailed, accurate representation of police procedures as displayed by Misters Riggs and Murtaugh in the Lethal Weapon series. Or the fundamental understanding of physics as displayed by Star Wars, Star Trek, etc.Or the understanding of the British CCTV systems displayed on Torchwood (note1), or the accurate depiction of air-safety equipment and procedures in Die Hard II (note2), or the presentation of pretty much any computer security system in almost anything out of Hollywood or Tokyo... (note3)
Script writers know about writing, just like computer programmers know about computers and police officers know about law enforcement. They don't necessarily know anything about the rest of the world; it's just that, in the case of script writers, that ignorance shows in their work.
(note1: They're not connected to each other. Most of them aren't connected to anything other than a VCR.)
(note2: Nothing that the bad guys did on the ground could have had any effect on the safety equipment mounted on the aircraft.)
(note3: You can't override computer security by typing in "OVERRIDE", or any other one-line string for that matter. The best you can do with one line of input is get admin/su rights, and that's only if you were already entitled to them.)
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Rob Kelk
"Governments have no right to question the loyalty of those who oppose
them. Adversaries remain citizens of the same state, common subjects of
the same sovereign, servants of the same law."
- Michael Ignatieff, addressing Stanford University in 2012