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Tonight I watched another X-File episode.
One day the COS, devised by a "garage genius" -type digital wizard, uses its advanced artificial intelligence (AI) to take over the building and kill a number of human adversaries. Why kill? Quite simple: American viewers expect advanced AI to include murder.
The next man on the list of victims is trapped in the toilet*, where the sink threatens to overflow. How a "Control Operating System" can manipulate a faucet is anybody's guess, but what really got me was when he had to pull the plug by groping with his hand for a 1935 - style rubber stopper!
The mockery on viewers' intelligence gets worse:
This futuristic film has it all in one scene and one room:
The flow of inconsistencies continues:
In the same episode, Mulder uses a DAT-tape recorder which squawks the recorded voice at high speed when rewinding.
(* Americans, in their characteristic puritanism would call it a "restroom" or even a "bathroom"!)
The story involves a "Control Operating System" which fully controls all electric and electronic functions in an office building.
Remember this story is taking place at a time when artificial intelligence controls buildings à la Bill Gates.
In order to open the toilet door from inside the man uses his credit card on a 1997 - style security lock gleaming with buttons and coloured lights.
A washbasin with a rubber plug and a security system to get out of the toilet.
When the amok-running computer makes the office building's lift** malfunction, its cabin descends at breakneck speed, indicator digits flashing from floor 37 to 0 in a second...
while the hapless victim struggles ON THE FLOOR, unable to get up!
On the floor mind you, not the ceiling!
All the world's tape recorders are muted during fast rewind.
Is the TV public really so stupid, that they need an acoustical cue to tell them that now a recording is being rewound?
(** elevator for Americans)
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