u/Trekker4747

Some of the earliest seasons are from the late 90s and some of the episodes that cover events in the 90s are humorous to me when some aspect of the internet has to be explained to the viewer. This kind of results in them talking in simpler words, likening things to everyday tangible objects, or trying to help the viewer gets convinced and perceived on how "big" or how "much" something is in a similar way but since it's something of large size they get a little more over-the-top with it.

For example: 7x35 X-Marks The Spot the killer used an early internet mapping system to send someone a map to the body of the next victim. The police are able to hunt him down thanks to a hidden element on the map the Killer didn't know about. They got to him by finding out where/when that website was visited recently by someone in the era and who looked at that spot on the map.

Parts of it just kind of fun to watch as they do this, remembering how the internet was back then and doing it myself with people new to computers.

Today they probably would just say, "Yeah, he got on his phone, found the map, emailed to his printer back at home and then it spit out a full color map 2 seconds later."

Tonight I'm watching Time Chasers (probably one of my last experiences with the Roku app.) And I have couple questions I noticed in the first few minutes of the movie that doesn't make sense.

1. Before leaving the plane with Morty, Nick pulls a 5.25" floppy out of disk drive of the computer in the plane. We then see him outside the plane, securing the door, both his hands free of this disk. (If you want to argue that between cuts he stashed the disk into a pocket inside his coat I'll all allow that but counter argue doing that would damage the disk (and this movie hasn't bought enough suspension of disbelief yet to allow that.)

2. Why not use the story about his more efficient fuel injector to bring the newspaper over? Certainly a story about a local developing such a device would be more interesting than a sky diving mother one.

It seems like more often than not a suspect's (or potential suspect's) alibi can be dissolved pretty quickly.

Excluding times when the person has records or witnesses to show they were geographically too far away to be a suspect; most of the time it seems like those giving, and supporting, the alibi are straight-up lying and falsifiying evidence. (I recall one where a guy happened to have a movie ticket stub to show where he was. He had bought the ticket and removed the stub but there was no proof showing he was actually in the theater watching the movie.)

So, what do you think? Alibis, a valid avenue of defense or just another mechanism a criminal can manipulate to get away with it?

I can't seem to find it no matter how I describe it to search engines and AI.

It was about a child parents said was kidnapped for ransom but they eventually found that the parents killed the. (I want to say they were newlyweds in a second marriage and wanted to start a fresh life and saw the kid as an obstacle. But I may be thinking of another episode there.

Anyway, the "focal evidence" in this episode was a smudge of ink on a ransom note that matched a similar smudge on letters they sent out from their company. The smudge was created by a damaged roller in their printer.

Sound familiar to anyone?

I usually find these episodes just as interesting, if not kind of more so when they still employ genetic testing procedures.

I can think of handful of them, the magic bullet, the apple juice, the mold in the old house, the woman that fell down the steps, the kid with the raw hamburger.

It's sometimes a... "relief" to get a story where accidents, corporate negligence and just pure random chance (the magic bullet stands out here) are the cause and not some deranged person.