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I'm aware of the NCIS scenes, what else you guys got?

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[-] Katana314@lemmy.world 38 points 8 hours ago* (last edited 6 hours ago)

There’s a trillion ones around unrealism, so I may as well pick something that would be more enjoyable if fixed.

Professional chatter. Let’s say a team of 30 scientists have been trying to communicate with a dimensional portal for 5 years. They wouldn’t be using speech like “Identity verified. Doctor Faris, you are clear to approach the anomaly.” Often, they’d have extremely abbreviated lingo for everything they need to express that happens on a daily basis, and otherwise are chatting about other stuff.

“Ok, approach endorsed. Bob wasn’t so chatty yesterday from what I heard, we’ll just aim for 2 logic points for this cycle.”
“Ryan was suggesting we spread the cycles. Bob has to sleep sometime.”
“Yeah, 90% of us would rather listen to Ryan than Mick, but Mick signs the checks.”

So the only actual order comes from some obscure phrase like “Approach endorsed”, which they may only say verbatim for safety reasons. The rest is just workplace banter about how best to accomplish their task, none of it being essential. EDIT: And, to make clear, in the above quote, Bob is the portal/anomaly.

[-] solstice@lemmy.world 1 points 1 hour ago

Ever seen Primer? Equal and opposite to that, easily the most confusing movie I've ever seen and they don't spoon feed you anything, lol

[-] frezik@midwest.social 5 points 4 hours ago

As a parallel, I seem to recall that the surgery banter in MASH is actually pretty realistic.

[-] coffee_with_cream@sh.itjust.works 1 points 21 minutes ago

Nurse, can you close for me? No? Well, how about you open for me?

[-] TimewornTraveler@lemm.ee 3 points 7 hours ago

what the heck is a dimensional portal in your real world example

[-] Katana314@lemmy.world 8 points 6 hours ago

We’re talking about TV shows and movies.

There’s normally one unrealistic conceit, eg aliens existing, that the audience believes. But then, the regular conceits like “The scientists studying the aliens speak like a bunch of robots and act like total idiots” become harder to believe.

[-] Ceedoestrees@lemmy.world 4 points 5 hours ago* (last edited 5 hours ago)

This is what makes Arrival so good. They don't want the best person for the job because she insists on being involved, they give the aliens nicknames immediately and everything goes to shit at the first excuse to start a war.

[-] ours@lemmy.world 8 points 7 hours ago

Your company doesn't have a portal to hell in the basement?

[-] Ioughttamow@fedia.io 10 points 5 hours ago

That’s usually the front door

[-] xorollo@leminal.space 4 points 7 hours ago
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