Recorded it. Watching it now. I got through 15 minutes of it and counted like 43 billion bad, overused nerd cliches and misused, dumbed-down technology things.
Downloading the data from the mainframe to the computer causes all of the data to randomly display all over the screens in the room? And the room's entire internal surface area is made up of computer screens for what reason?
The download to the handheld took a couple of minutes. Sending the email to Chuck which contained all of that data took half a second before the handheld self-destructed. And though the handheld was destroyed, the secret agent "picked up a trace signal" that led them to Los Angeles; what the hell kind of signal could even remotely possibly give them that information?
The Mac falls on the floor from 5 feet up and shatters. I thought they'd be a little sturdier than that, given the price. The side of it falls off, every internal component falls out and breaks into pieces, including the hard drive. And the ninja agent leaves it there despite the fact that the NSA can recover data from a hard drive even if you try to destroy with anything short of a drill, thermite or acid.
All of the "geek jokes" and references to nerdy things just make me groan, they just stand out so much. I expect them to wink at the camera when they use one of them. Haha, a dumb guy comes into the store and doesn't know he needs a tape in his video camera, what an idiot, haha. Oh Nerd Herd, where could they have come up with that, and they work at Buy More and drive Focuses with orange and black colors.
I'll finish the pilot and maybe watch one more episode if I can stand it, but I don't think I'm going to be able to stand this. It's Jake 2.0 all over again, but on network TV.
If they didn't try so hard to put in "inside jokes" for the geeks, plus the jokes about geeks that average people will get, AND didn't have gratuitous instances of technology that is so badly misused and misrepresented, then it might be okay. But then, they'd have to start off with finding some less implausible idea for how Chuck gets all the data into his brain.