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TV grumpings
Oct. 21st, 2010 19:42the longer i watch a show the more i get annoyed by character traits in certain people. i guess familiarity really does breed contempt in this case (this is not usually true for me in real life). some time in season 4 of a show i start to feel more and more grumpy about what feel to me like serious learning curve problems on the part of characters and writers.
in criminal minds for example, derek morgan calls anyone younger than him "kid". that's a terrible tic for an agent who's supposed to establish rapport with a suspect, and i would expect a team leader to point this out. it's in general not a particularly good way to address any other adult unless you use it as a term of endearment with zir permission. he's now my least favourite main character, because all the hotness can't make up for the domineering posturing in which he engages. when hotchner gives a job to somebody, he sounds very matter-of-fact about it, "this is necessary to the investigation", and it becomes really obvious when hotchner is off his game because then he sounds much nastier. when morgan does it, it generally sounds like "i am the boss and i have the AUTHORITY to tell you to do this".
and i wish they got somebody who actually knows computers to help write garcia's lines. S5E13 has her type away like mad and spout nonsense like "there's nothing here! no directory structure, no operating system, no registry!". no shit, penelope. if there's no directory structure (ie your disk is not organized in a manner the BIOS recognizes), the computer won't get past the POST. the "no registry" bit is especially idiotic as only windows has one. if there is no operating system, ergo we don't have windows installed, why is a registry even a concern?
i usually don't expect much computer knowledge from TV shows, but it irks me if they feature alleged computer geniuses but show with every line they speak that the writers had not even a remote clue as to what makes a computer tick.
oh, in S5E09 it was particularly egregious, since the unsub found out the FBI was hot on his heels by setting up an "internet alert" for the pseudonym he was using, so he got warned when garcia searched for the name. uh huh. ghods, there was SO MUCH STUPID in that episode altogether.
well, at least it distracted me from the havoc wrought on hotchner. i'm glad that's over with. now there will be a lull in making agents the target of unsubs for a while.
in criminal minds for example, derek morgan calls anyone younger than him "kid". that's a terrible tic for an agent who's supposed to establish rapport with a suspect, and i would expect a team leader to point this out. it's in general not a particularly good way to address any other adult unless you use it as a term of endearment with zir permission. he's now my least favourite main character, because all the hotness can't make up for the domineering posturing in which he engages. when hotchner gives a job to somebody, he sounds very matter-of-fact about it, "this is necessary to the investigation", and it becomes really obvious when hotchner is off his game because then he sounds much nastier. when morgan does it, it generally sounds like "i am the boss and i have the AUTHORITY to tell you to do this".
and i wish they got somebody who actually knows computers to help write garcia's lines. S5E13 has her type away like mad and spout nonsense like "there's nothing here! no directory structure, no operating system, no registry!". no shit, penelope. if there's no directory structure (ie your disk is not organized in a manner the BIOS recognizes), the computer won't get past the POST. the "no registry" bit is especially idiotic as only windows has one. if there is no operating system, ergo we don't have windows installed, why is a registry even a concern?
i usually don't expect much computer knowledge from TV shows, but it irks me if they feature alleged computer geniuses but show with every line they speak that the writers had not even a remote clue as to what makes a computer tick.
oh, in S5E09 it was particularly egregious, since the unsub found out the FBI was hot on his heels by setting up an "internet alert" for the pseudonym he was using, so he got warned when garcia searched for the name. uh huh. ghods, there was SO MUCH STUPID in that episode altogether.
well, at least it distracted me from the havoc wrought on hotchner. i'm glad that's over with. now there will be a lull in making agents the target of unsubs for a while.