Hollywood idiocy strikes again

[kengr]

Watching the first episode of the new show "Scorpion" with Fay.

If you turn your brain off, it;s great. Otherwise the technical errors will have you screaming.

I won't list them all, but for just one example, trying to brown out a 10 block area by doing *something* with a junction box, they tell the person at the junction box they need "500,000 kilowatts".

Folks, that's half a GIGAWATT. That's the power for good sized city. The junction box couldn't possibly handle that sort of power.

But hey, it sounded good...

We'll watch a few more episofdes just to yell at the writers, but I don't hold oput long term hopes for the program.

Comments

[stickmaker.livejournal.com]

I wonder if the script alternated between "500 kilowatts" and "500,000 watts" (not trivial, but somewhat feasible) and someone "homogenized" all usages to the same wrong thing.

Note that I did not view the episode. Just guessing.

[skjam.livejournal.com]

This is the problem with trying to write a script full of geniuses when none of your writers can do science.