Joel and I were watching The X-Files last night. It was the second season finale titled Anasazi. Now, in the show, cell phones were very, very essential to the plot. Scully and Mulder were always in contact with each other by using their cell phones, Mulder got tips from people calling his cell phone. They didn't go anywhere with out it. In the particular episode we were watching last night Mulder ends up in a boxcar full of what looks to be alien skeletons. He, of course, uses his phone to call Scully and tell her of the great evidence he has of alien life and the government covering it up. Now, this is all happening in the years 1993 or 1994, roughly. As I watched Mulder call Scully (which is unbelievable already because he is in a boxcar in the middle of the desert in 1994 and his cell phone has reception? Come on. With all the improvements 10 years later we still don't get that kind of reception in the middle of civilization.) something came to mind. The new camera phones that have come out in the last two years. If Mulder had one of those, the show would be over in an episode. He calls Scully and says, "Hey, Scully. I found this box car full of skeltons that look alien." and of course Scully says, "No you didn't. You are crazy." and then all Mulder would have to do is take a picture and send it to her and say, "Uh huh. See, told you so." and there would be some evidence. He could run around with it and take pictures of Krycek and Cancer Man and pretty much rule the joint by the end of the episode because of his enormous cell phone bill and some cleverly taken pictures. So that is why the show ended. Technology advanced so that we would always know the truth or be able to take pictures of it. But then you have the whole plausable deniablility thing where the FBI come in and say, "Well, uh, those phones can be hacked and you can make a picture you took of your dog look like an alien skeleton," and so on and so forth, but who believes them anyway?
Posted by jessab at November 18, 2003 09:52 AM