'Potential'
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I've decided that all those CSI shows, and Bones, are totally science fiction. For instance, Bones had an episode where they digitized all the information about DC's underground utility lines, in like, an hour, and put them all together in a 3-D hologram to figure out where the bad guys where. Completely ignorant of the fact that it would take months, probably, to digitize all that information and make it geographically consistent, not to mention the whole hologram thing.
Stupid.
House is sci-fi, too.
I've decided that all those CSI shows, and Bones, are totally science fiction. For instance, Bones had an episode where they digitized all the information about DC's underground utility lines, in like, an hour, and put them all together in a 3-D hologram to figure out where the bad guys where. Completely ignorant of the fact that it would take months, probably, to digitize all that information and make it geographically consistent, not to mention the whole hologram thing.
Oh, 'Suela. This is TV, where all scientific liquids are pretty colors despite that in any real lab, EVERYTHING IS CLEAR, and chromatography takes three hours instead of three days.
I could sort of deal with the compressed time issues with tests and the stupid exposition driven conversations. But now that the CSIs are doing the actual questioning of suspects I just can't watch.
now that the CSIs are doing the actual questioning of suspects I just can't watch.
They've been doing that all along, if memory serves.
They've been doing that all along, if memory serves.
and it annoys me every time. SO unrealistic. But then, I've never been in a Vegas interrogation, so maybe that's the way they do it out there.
I don't think there's anywhere but television where crime scene techs interview people. The Georgia crime lab is roughly nine months behind. I think you could argue that CSI is taking place in an alternate universe.
BSG definitely needs to bring in a male sexbot Cylon. I think that Gale Harold (Brian Kinney from Queer as Folk) would fit the bill quite nicely.
House is sci-fi, too.
Totally. Only in an alternate universe would doctors have the skilled technical training to run diagnostic equipment like the MRI and mamogram machines. Also? I am soooooooooooo glad the universe they live in finally cottoned on to the not-putting shit in the mouths of people who are seizing.
ETA: Obviously the medical insurance racket is not as powerful there than it is here - imagine four doctors devoting their attentions to a single patient for hours on end, without getting warning notices from the patients' insurance companies saying they need to start being more efficient with their billed hours.
Note that on House Cameron runs all of House's lab tests, and all of them run their own MRIs. I don't *think* so. [x-post!]