MI:5

Is a great television show.

With one tragic flaw.

Fucking computers. Any god damn espionage that involves a Turing machine of some kind looks like someone slapped a god damn powerpoint presentation on a Windows 95 operating system. It's ridiculous. It totally removes me from the story, is unbelievable and doesn't even have a reasonable operating interface. It reminds me of a sim hacking game JRPM pointed out to me the name I cannot recall but it had silly cutesy graphics and a simplistic premise. But was entertaining when movies were on in the background before it became intensely frustrating.

Casino Royale got it right. Obviously it can be done.

What I don't understand is that the fake UI seems to have been designed by someone who's never used a computer before. A stored password on a laptop that gives direct access to MI:5's main servers simply by clicking a shortcut on the desktop? Come the fuck on! But they had to use a computer in order to make the fake program! So where's the breakdown happening? I'm assuming that it is a money issue that the computer screen designer had bigger more expansive goals but did not have the time or the money to see them realized. That it was not specifically but there just to piss me off, by a show that in all other respects has re-affirmed my faith in humanity.