Sorry, server ate my post again! Here’s some approximation of what I originally wanted to post:
Tonight’s Alias had a minor goof, where they gave out an IP address that began with 259. Since the valid range is 0-255, I thought they might have been doing that intentionally (like the 555-xxxx phone numbers). However, the other IP address they gave out was valid: 199.181.134.104. (Has anyone tried to find out what was on port 47?)
This reminded me of another goofup from last season, where Sydney repeats out loud the binary number from the Rambaldi artifact and it didn’t match the number shown at all.
I know these are minor nitpicks… anybody else spot some goofs in this show?
Wish I could help you out - but no. I watch the show - there don’t seem to be a ton of Dopers who do, at least compared to other shows, so I wanted to show support for the thread. Hey, its the little things.
Overall, an interesting ep - more focused on adding yet another layer of comlexity to the Big Story than being something self-contained and satisfying unto itself, but worth watching…
The IP Address she said started with 255, not 259. 255 is valid. Unfortunately, I can’t remember the rest of the IP, but I’m (99.9%) positive it was 255.
I tried doing a Reverse DNS lookup on the IP you gave in your post, but I couldn’t get a host name. I pinged it and got a response, though, so there is a server out there with that IP.
Pretty good episode, I thought. I missed a minute or two, hopefully someone out there can fill me in: There was a part where the head SD-6 guy (I forget his name) is in his pajamas and watching something on his security cameras. What did he see? Where did he find that wine with the drug in it?
Starbury – Sloane found the glass waiting on the marble counter in his bathroom when he came out of the shower. That’s why he was all freaked out and looking at the security cameras – someone was in his house and was just outside the shower stall while he was helplessly nekkid. So he was mad, mad, mad at the security lapse.
He didn’t see anything on the security cameras because they weren’t working (indicating that someone tampered with them.)
On to the OP, “goofs” we’ve only tacken issue with a few far-fetched bits that toed the line of “plausible”. Recently, Sydney was trapped underwater, under ice. A big deal was made about the ice “freezing over in 40 seconds” (I may be mistaken on the number, it could be 20 or 30 seconds). She fell through the ice, it froze over, trapping her underneath. She was able to swim down to take a few breaths from a death guy’s scuba tank, then get his gun and shoot through the ice again.
In extremely cold water, if you are not properly insulated (she was just wearing a winter outift, not a dry suit), you get extremely disoriented very quickly. A guy here in Ontario died recently trying to show off for his friends by swimming under the ice of a frozen lake – he was trying to go a mere 8-10 feet from one hole in the ice to another. He became disoriented and couldn’t figure out what he was doing, where he was going, or how to get to the surface. He drowned/froze.
If you are wearing boots while swimming, they usually fill up with water and drag you down. She did fairly well for someone wearing a snowsuit.
I think the line was that at that temperature, ice freezes over in 4 seconds. As for Sydney being able to orient herself, the latest episode established that her spatial skills were off the charts.
So, think of her as an elite human like James Bond… she always gets through scrapes that normal humans would not. However, if somebody human could do it then the super spy can do it. For example, James Bond could ski like an expert stuntman.
Since an olympic athlete who trained could theoretically swim under the ice and survive, I’d believe it’s theoretically possible for Sydney to do it, as well.
Speaking of which… I just thought of another goof. Earlier in the season (the premiere?) Sydney was shot in the shoulder, but the wound magically healed in time for her to wear a revealing dress (with no visible wound).
Yeah, but I’m not talking “disoriented” as in spatial skills, it’s more like “disoriented” as in “impaired by biology.” People who are submerged in such cold water become disoriented because their brains aren’t processing info properly.
The guy who died a few winters ago in the cold water was sober, but stupid. In the frigid waters he was thoroughly impaired. He didn’t get confused spatially, hid brain stopped functioning properly. His body was found beside the hole in the ice – coroners say he lost the ability to figure out what was going on. Like being on some serious, mind-messing drugs.
In early spring, my ex-SO and I waded into knee-deep water in Northern Ontario that was very cold but not frozen over. I had to be rescued because my legs stopped working – we’re only talking 20 feet from one rock to the next. I was in serious doo-doo and only another group of hikers were able to keep me from mortal jeopardy!
My curent SO and I watched that part of the episode thinking “oh, she’s drowned several minutes ago.” It was absolutely implausible to us, knowing how the cold affects a human body in those conditions.
Was the dress incident the same episode as when she go shot?
Maybe emore than 1 week occurs between episodes.
Maybe it was another show/episode, but didn’t she ask somebody “can you see my scar?”. Or maybe its just me looking for any excuse to see JG in a revealing dress…
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and check her out as Elektra(sp?) in the latest Daredevil trailer
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Thanks.