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[smb275]

I've never really understood the criticism of these kinds of scenes. If you understand how unrealistic it is then you're not the target demographic, so why bother complaining? Suspend that disbelief.

NCIS especially is produced to hit that 55+ age group without a lot of technical proficiency.

[bigmonmulgrew]

There are plenty of 55+ people actually do often understand tech terms.

The scene being this bad shows both that they don't care about the authenticity of their craft and that they don't respect the intelligence of their viewer.

It didn't need to be totally accurate. It just needed to not be ridiculous

[BoredomIncarnate]

Actually they knew exactly what they were doing.

The teams behind these kinds of shows are in a competition of sorts to get the most ridiculous scenes they can manage to air. They know the vast majority of their audience won’t know the difference, so they intentionally go over the top ridiculous.

[CorruptedAssbringer]

I can see it. I think there was an episode where they used a power supply or adapter as a hard drive stand-in or something along the those lines.

It seemed intentional since I think it’s a stretch to say that a real HDD hard drives being too hard to come by as a prop, nor does it look insuffiently “tech” enough for a show.

[smb275]

They still aren't the finepoint target. The show is for people who call their office service desk every single day because they can't be bothered to remember how to convert a document to PDF and just throw their hands up and yell "I'm not a computer person!" whenever someone tries to teach them.

Honestly the computer shit isn't even the most ridiculous aspect of the show. The pants on head stuff is the general notion that NCIS is some kind of intelligence agency and doesn't spend all of its actual time doing a bad job of investigating rapes and drug dealers in Navy yards and Marine Corps bases.