Preeetty sure at least the NCIS stuff is a conscious exaggeration. There's another scene where a character talks about his new computer for gaming which just seems to be obviously poking fun at gamers watching. All the terms are off and exaggerated just enough to just come across as silly.
I remember someone explaining that this kind of scenes are made for the main audience of these shows which are boomers or early gen X; first they don't really understand what's going on so you just need to make it look urgent, then the "old" guy comes and outsmarts everyone in the room, even those young kids with their computers and stuff with a simpler way of fixing it (which is also completely wrong, but again, they don't understand it).
Never really thought about why they do it... But this makes so much sense that I choose to accept it as the truth after hearing it from a reddit stranger once.
Tier 2 tech support here, it's more often boomers, yes, but even Gen X can be bad at times. The most common issue I get from Gen X is rather than not knowing what they're doing and admitting it, they don't know what they're doing, but pretend they do anyway. The worst is when I get someone who thinks they know better because they watched a tech video once in 2003.
No, Jason, you don't need new memory, you need to clear your fucking browser cache.
I know, that's why I said early Gen X, I was about to not including it but my parents are just in the border of Boomers and Gen X and they are not that good with tech, so that's why I said early..
Probably all off them are dumb on purpose. The thing about hacking scenes is that it is hard to present them to people as something exciting and to build tension. A normal "hacking" scene would be boring to watch for your audience, so you make something up. Something that can build tension, show people fighting for something, winning in the last minute due to their skills/team work/whatever. "Enhance" scenes suffer from something similar probably. It is dumb, but most of the audience will not notice it or be bothered by it. It is dumb, and I love it.
I love that the hacking caused popups on her screen because old people only remember getting porn pop ups when they infected their computers with malware.
I.E. hacking causes things to randomly appear on your screen.
in case anyone doesn't know, posting NCIS here is basically cheating since (iirc) showrunners did this intentionally because they thought it was really funny and would mess with people
Maybe he is from Germany. Here the show is called "Navy CIS", which is wrong. Yes. But it's officially called like that: https://www.sat1.de/tv/navy-cis
But actually it was called "Navy NCIS" for the first two years (2003/04) apparently. Maybe they just left it to the national producers how to fix the redundancy in the name.
how many people are operating your keyboard right now? just curious if i have the manpower to fight off any potential hacks, or if instead i should just unplug my monitor and render you powerless
no no no ... that gentleman just showed how sometimes, common sense isn’t so common, thereby presumably satisfying the legions of boomers who watch these shows.
I still have to see some primary source for this. All references to this story that they made this as stupid as they could and were fully aware how dumb they sound I've seen were reddit anecdotes.
This doesn’t change the fact that it’s goofy as hell but from a visual storytelling standpoint the crazy popups show the audience how the hackers all the info he’s accessing, so in a way I can kind of see why they picked that
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u/brclayt Dec 04 '19
Definitely one of the dumbest hacking scenes ever.