There's one thing I have a very low tolerance for, and that's technology nonsense. For example, the "3D Unix Operating System" in Jurassic Park. Countless movies do it because writers are often too lazy to verify their work with subject matter experts. I don't care if I watch science fiction, but if it's set in a contemporary time or the future, it should be grounded in something believable, something with constraints.
In this episode some protagonist buys a laser pointer / light thingie in the hotel lobby, somehow opens & mounts it to his cellphone, and then outside points the phone at hotel rooms until he "picks up a signal". For some reason he can pickup what people are saying, despite the fact these people are not on the phone and 180 feet away. What incomprehensible nonsense is that - to solve a writer's problem with a lazy solution? That immediately pisses me off. More of this nonsense and I'm out.
In this episode some protagonist buys a laser pointer / light thingie in the hotel lobby, somehow opens & mounts it to his cellphone, and then outside points the phone at hotel rooms until he "picks up a signal". For some reason he can pickup what people are saying, despite the fact these people are not on the phone and 180 feet away. What incomprehensible nonsense is that - to solve a writer's problem with a lazy solution? That immediately pisses me off. More of this nonsense and I'm out.
