First off, I’ll admit something that I’m not necessarily proud of: I watch Smallville and enjoy it. I watch it in batches. We don’t have cable, and our reception at the old place was terrible; we only got in Fox. We get a few more channels now, but it requires effort, and I don’t really have time to watch any TV anyway.<\/p>\n
Except that every once in a while, a coworker of mine loans me a VHS tape chock full of Smallville episodes. Recently he gave me one with 8 episodes. I know it’s a stupid show with poor dialog, but I enjoy seeing how they’re retelling the story of Superman. Some of it is fairly clever.<\/p>\n
My point in admitting this is because a part of an episode we watched last night irked me. Consider this exchange:<\/p>\n
Lex has gone into the IT lab of luthorcorp, and meets a sexy IT woman (she’s actually not an actual employee and has broken in, but that’s not germaine)<\/p>\n
Lex: I’m trying to do some work, and my program keeps crashing.
\nwoman: Hmm… It sounds like a virus.
\nLex: That’s what I thought.
\nwoman: Here. (handing him an unlabeled CD) This gets rid of viruses.<\/p>\n
Is that not just the most generic, ridiculous dialog you’ve ever heard? I mean, aside from Star Trek: Next Generation, where every problem was solved with tachyon pulses?<\/p>\n
It really irks me for no good reason when movies and tv shows don’t even try for verisimilitude<\/a> concerning technology. I’ll bet there’s a website out there that tracks the egregious misrepresentation of technology in fictional media. I’m going to find it.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" First off, I’ll admit something that I’m not necessarily proud of: I watch Smallville and enjoy it. I watch it in batches. We don’t have cable, and our reception at the old place was terrible; we only got in Fox. … Continue reading