Mine is that witnesses of various sorts keep giving the cops the finger (legitimately) and ask if they have warrants. The cops make ridiculous threats which would become a PR nightmare for the police, as well as brining possible charges of corruption and harrassment upoin their own heads. The witness folds on the spot.
That’s really annoying, because it never amounts to anything. It’s particularly infuriating when they do this to medical professionals, psychologists, and whatnot who have serious reasons not to give in. Plus, those same shows also use the fact that said personnel cannot legally give information as major plot points in other episodes.
I know it sounds trivial, but this takes me instantly out of the show. Once they do that, I’m no longer suspending disbelief.
Yes, that’s quite silly. I know they’re trying to look all high tech and all, but it just comes off wrong. Oh, looking at it on this LCD covered table top is too easy, better “throw” it over to the monitors hanging on the wall 10 feet away!
That one, I can believe. It happens in my own agency. It’s not really about who does the work- it’s about who decides who does the work and who gets the credit.
The FBI serial killers unit classifyd serial killers as “organized” or “disorganized.” The organized type are extremely good at getting away with their crimes. Some of them kill for years before being caught, like Ted Bundy, John Wayne Gacy, Gary Ridgeway.
I suspect the two classifications are probably split 50/50. However, more of the organized serial killers get away with it.They are not all, or even most “downright stupid losers.”
I’m irritated when cops are looking for someone, spot him halfway down the block, and yell at him - giving him a good head start for a race. Seems to me it would make sense to get close, even surround him before alerting him!
I have seen enough heroes running-then-diving away from the explosion that boils up behind them but the heroes somehow outrun the massive screen-filling expanding burning bubble…
And the hero never ever has the “Holy S***, I’m about to get burned up like a matchstick” panic on their faces. Just the gritty look of determination.
I’m always rooting for the fireball.
Also, the lead cop, when taking his SWAT team in on an attack yells, “Go, go, go, GO!” just as the group storms whatever it is that they are storming. Never three “go’s”, never five “go’s”…always four, with heavy emphasis on the last.
When the SWAT team enters the building, the lead cop always points at his nose or something and then twitches and points his fingers in a certain way such that the other team members always know exactly what to do and where to go no matter how complicated the situation is… Just once I want one of the other cops to look at our hero and mouth “What?”
Then the SWAT team starts entering various rooms and yelling “CLEAR” when they don’t find the villain. If it is OK to yell, thus alerting the heel hiding deeper in the maze of rooms, why bother with the hand signals when directing the team at the start?
A scrawny but trained fighter could probably take me too. My issue is when they take someone similarly trained, or even worse, when they take several someones similarly trained. It’s about what specifically breaks my personal suspension of disbelief.
Regarding the SWAT teams, just the fact that a non-SWAT trained detective leads the charge (usually without a helmet) while the nameless, faceless, helmeted SWAT officers follow.
Fair enough… but even if Ted Bundy was not a “stupid loser,” neither was he a diabolical mastermind who knew the names and addresses of all the FBI agents seeking him.
Every agent on*** Criminal Minds ***seems to have lost a friend or family member to a super-genius killer who knows just where to find them. Did Gacy or Ridgway ever attempt such a thing?
Yeah, they call it “waif-fu” and it’s one of those things that was cool to watch… the first dozen times, maybe. Now, it’s going on to a zillion, it’s too fucking overdone.
Actually, that’s not really unrealistic. It’s genuine territorialism and, to a large extent, ego. The local cops are on a big case with a lot of publicity, and the Feds show up to steal all the credit for solving the case. The same is true in pretty much any profession — nobody likes a “higher-up” coming in and taking over their project.
It’s like, say, the Seattle Mariners finally win the American League Championship and are ready to play Game 1 of the World Series, and the New York Yankees show up and say, “Good job, guys. We’ll take it from here.”
Yes! That bugs the hell out of me and it happens all the time on these shows, and in movies, too. Once you notice it, you start to realize how often this is used.