I've seen A Quarter To Midnight today (again that is of course) and even though it is one of my three most favourite episodes I spotted a load of logical mistakes in there First of all, she is able to dial, right? So why can't she give any signal? By pressing the numbers she should be able to make 12 different sounds. As long as she's able to dial that works. If they still used the pulse dialing system back than, she could at least have created that pulse dialing noise. She didn't even try, so maybe she didn't think of it. Very unlikely though as anybody would try to press any buttons, but okay, she always had problems with more complicated phones. Secondly out of the peaple in the newsroom somebody could have come up with "give her a list of possible answers with numbers, and she can answer by letting the phone ring the number of times the answer has on the list. example: yes=1 ring, no=2 rings, don't know =3 rings." A good choice of questions and answers would have been not too much of a problem. Although I must admit I have no idea if dialtone and rings of the phone are synchronised in the UK. In Germany they are. And last but most important: (spoiler spoiler spoiler!!!) She saves herself because she had entered her lucky number into the time lock. When she did this the door was still locked. Later it was still locked until the time lock opened it. This means: If I wanted the locked door to open, I'd for example just have to go down there a moment before 10pm and enter 2200. The door would open a minute later. Not much security, don't you think? As pressgang is known for not having too many logical mistakes (which is undoutably one of it's strongest advantages) this is just one too many for me. Comments anyone? :-) erik -------------------------------------------------------------------------- Erik Gander | ICQ UIN 1805474 | http://www.stud.uni-hannover.de/~gander/ -- | T H E P R E S S G A N G M A I L I N G L I S T | | | | By default, replies will go back to this list, not to | | the author of the message you're replying to. | | | | To unsubscribe from this list, mail the word | | "unsubscribe" to "pressgang-request@yoyo.org". | |