TV Pet Peeves
I stole this idea from a Woozle Loving Friend. She had a pet peeve about last night's episode of Lost. I had mine, about last night's episode of Alias.
Last night on Alias, they had to send Marshall in to rescue Sydney who was buried alive (i'll get to that in a minute). To make a long story short [too late] marshall accidently kills the bad guy that they need to obtain a retinal scan to open some encrypted file. Now, my beef isn't with all the encryption mumbo-jumbo ... it comes when SpyDaddy instructs Marshall how to remove the man's eyes to get the retinal scan. While marshall is removing the first eye, with a letter opener, he screws up and says, "something happened, there's goo oozing out" or something to that affect. Then SpyDaddy says, " You must have PIERCED THE MACULA" !!!?????!!! WTF ??!!?
Okay, here's a brief ocular anatomy lesson for those of you who haven't just spent 90k on an optometric education. The macula is the area of the retina nasal to the optic nerve that gives you your 20/20 acuity. It's a pit of photoceptors that receives most of the info coming into the eye. Now, if you pierce the eye with a letter opener.. you pierce the OUTER coating of the eye, known as the sclera. (which is the white part of the eye you see in the front ) The sclera is made of a semi-flexible type of collagen. You CANNOT pierce the macula... you CAN pierce the GLOBE !!! Pierce the GLOBE , SpyDaddy !!! And, for the record, the "goo" oozing out is known as the vitreous. It's what keeps the eye round. Thus endith the lesson on ocular anatomy.
Geez.. you'd think they'd have scientific advisors on that show or something.
And, to get to the burying alive part.... all I have to say is.....
If Sydney had Sprint she'd be dead.
posted by CWH @ 11:19 PM
4 Comments:
I get the same thing almost every time they run a mass spec on CSI. ;) Every GC takes about 30 seconds and they are always "finding" things that are not possible to find via MS. Oh well, "suspension of disbelief" as Greg B. used to say.
The really sad thing is that they actually BOUGHT some of that equipment (the mass specs at least) and had it installed to make it seem like a “real lab”. But once they started shooting they decided that the pumps were “too loud” and had everything turned off. They could have saved a LOT of money by just making fake instruments. So sad…
yeah, that hacks me off too. i don't have the PhD like you do, but I do know you can't run a MS in 30 seconds, stare at a print out and go... oooo jimsom weed. NO NO NO NO NO!! It's why G doesn't watch CSI. It drives him crazy.
That, and the people ALWAYS CONFESS !! Shut up when they catch you and you might get away with it. That's what lawyers are for.
I just watched the "House" episode i taped on tuesday. House accused a woman of cheating on her husband because even though both her and the husband have brown eyes, some of their kids don't. last time i checked, two brown-eyed people can have a kid with non-brown eyes. bah!
~nataliya
yep... if they're both blue eyed carriers (like I am) :)
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