>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? I was always confused by the fact that Lynda set the timmer at 10/11 on Friday night to open at a quarter to midnight, but the door did not open until the next day. Surely if there is a 24 hour clock in the lock it would have opened at the first 23:45 not the next? Don't tell me that it was after midnight on friday when she set it becuase Spike was still at the news room and he was home from the Resterant by 3am. Natacha >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". | -- | 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". | |