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[lvstephanie]

Did anybody see the new series </Scorpion>? It's about a group of geniuses that are hired by the government to help with various problems... My take was that although I liked the premise and some of the characters, I was actually a little annoyed with all of the logical issues with it.

For example the whole scene with a couple of these geniuses storming into a data warehouse to retrieve a backup copy of a working airport's control tower's program was horrible... It started with a locked door (with a key-card lock) to the data warehouse / storage unit? (as it looked more like the outside of a storage unit than a data warehouse) where the team used a power spike to unlock it... Since this is a data warehouse with many servers running inside storing this data, either the power spike would reek havoc with the servers thereby causing this program they needed to be corrupted, or more likely the servers would have redundant power in addition to various power-surge protections to ensure data integrity in which case it just begs the question why the company wouldn't also put their security system under the same power protections meaning that the teams power surge trick wouldn't have unlocked the doors anyways. Then when they were inside, the guy that's an expert at reading people and their body language used some rather weak rationale to location the correct hard-drive among the hundreds in that server room; for example, the data manager is left-handed (from inferences from his desk / picture) so he'd put the hard-drive on his dominant side except that the data manager probably never even touched the hard-drives as it's very doubtful he'd build the racks of servers let alone needed to ever physically touch the hard-drives. Finally the team grabs the correct "hard-drive" except again in a data warehouse like that where their business is in protecting the data stored on the servers, in order to protect the data from hard-drive failures, they'd tie together several hard-drives together with the data spread across these drives so that if one fails, the servers can use the data stored on the other drives to reconstruct the missing data on the bad drive (this is known as a hard-drive RAID). Since the data warehouse would have these hard-drive RAIDs, they'd need to pull more than a single hard-drive in order to retrieve the data stored off of those drives. And unless you knew how the drives were RAIDed together, they wouldn't know how many drives they'd need to grab.

I understand that movies and TV are notorious for making these leaps in logic, but usually there is some basis behind it and the show just uses its poetic license to bend what would actually happen in the real world. For example, CSI tends to complete tests on the data they find exceedingly quickly compared to the amount of work it'd actually take to get the results; but at least the results they got would be plausible in the real world. However with this show (at least in this pilot episode) the holes were so gaping that the end result would have never happened in the real world. It becomes especially glaring when the lead genius of this team is a computer guru (hence why the title appears as a markup language tag), you'd think the script writers would actually talk with some computer experts to do some basic fact-checking instead of relying on Hollywood Magic; if a humble programmer can spot those holes in logic, then the computer genius in the show should've easily thought of all of at least some of those issues before even attempting to storm into the data warehouse.

[dwggs]

I loved the season premier ... I think it will be a very entertaining show

[bob1tina]

I have not watched it looked interesting but I didn't watch the premier and I hate it when I miss the first episode of a new series.

[bhiett]

I think this will be a series that I will watch this season, but I fell asleep during the first one (the pilot, I think) and have not seen another one yet.  I am still trying to learn the day of the week when all the new shows are on that I want to watch and the channels they are on... have already missed a few.

[mgint]

I liked show characters are interesting and hope it will make it through the first season.

[kewl4reals]

Did anybody see the new series </Scorpion>? It's about a group of geniuses that are hired by the government to help with various problems... My take was that although I liked the premise and some of the characters, I was actually a little annoyed with all of the logical issues with it.

For example the whole scene with a couple of these geniuses storming into a data warehouse to retrieve a backup copy of a working airport's control tower's program was horrible... It started with a locked door (with a key-card lock) to the data warehouse / storage unit? (as it looked more like the outside of a storage unit than a data warehouse) where the team used a power spike to unlock it... Since this is a data warehouse with many servers running inside storing this data, either the power spike would reek havoc with the servers thereby causing this program they needed to be corrupted, or more likely the servers would have redundant power in addition to various power-surge protections to ensure data integrity in which case it just begs the question why the company wouldn't also put their security system under the same power protections meaning that the teams power surge trick wouldn't have unlocked the doors anyways. Then when they were inside, the guy that's an expert at reading people and their body language used some rather weak rationale to location the correct hard-drive among the hundreds in that server room; for example, the data manager is left-handed (from inferences from his desk / picture) so he'd put the hard-drive on his dominant side except that the data manager probably never even touched the hard-drives as it's very doubtful he'd build the racks of servers let alone needed to ever physically touch the hard-drives. Finally the team grabs the correct "hard-drive" except again in a data warehouse like that where their business is in protecting the data stored on the servers, in order to protect the data from hard-drive failures, they'd tie together several hard-drives together with the data spread across these drives so that if one fails, the servers can use the data stored on the other drives to reconstruct the missing data on the bad drive (this is known as a hard-drive RAID). Since the data warehouse would have these hard-drive RAIDs, they'd need to pull more than a single hard-drive in order to retrieve the data stored off of those drives. And unless you knew how the drives were RAIDed together, they wouldn't know how many drives they'd need to grab.

I understand that movies and TV are notorious for making these leaps in logic, but usually there is some basis behind it and the show just uses its poetic license to bend what would actually happen in the real world. For example, CSI tends to complete tests on the data they find exceedingly quickly compared to the amount of work it'd actually take to get the results; but at least the results they got would be plausible in the real world. However with this show (at least in this pilot episode) the holes were so gaping that the end result would have never happened in the real world. It becomes especially glaring when the lead genius of this team is a computer guru (hence why the title appears as a markup language tag), you'd think the script writers would actually talk with some computer experts to do some basic fact-checking instead of relying on Hollywood Magic; if a humble programmer can spot those holes in logic, then the computer genius in the show should've easily thought of all of at least some of those issues before even attempting to storm into the data warehouse.

 i dont like that show