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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Ruin Explorer" data-source="post: 9053971" data-attributes="member: 18">That's all true, but it in no way excuses any of this, because none of it was necessary.Do you get what I'm saying? You can write a legal drama episode without resorting to the levels of brain-damaging legal stupidity that they did here. There's no reason to make it this dumb unless the writer is literally so ignorant of the law and courts that they think it's not dumb. They could easily have written the asylum law, for example, so that it DID apply, rather than writing a completely irrelevant law.It's one of the worst traits of a lot of '90s and '00s sci-fi shows, including the very worst seasons of Star Trek, to take a subject that doesn't need to be examined in detail, and go into it in detail, but make that detail completely and utterly moronic.You see it occasionally in SF novels too - one good example being a lovely novel where the author totally unnecessarily stops the plot for like two pages of exposition on how the power supply of the main android character works, explaining that it's totally not a perpetual motion machine, except she has 100% perfectly described a perpetual motion machine, because she went into too much detail on the science, and revealed she didn't understand physics well enough. The rest of the novel is fine, but that bit is the equivalent of saying how good you are at math and then handing the audience a math exam where you've scored an E, and got most of the answers wrong.</blockquote>

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