Get your TV out of my reality!

5tephe brought attention to the one thing that friends and I have been saying for YEARS only happens that way in movies and doesn't happen in real life.

You know all those shows where there's a camera pic and the protagonist digitally zooms into the picture, then zooms more, then keeps on zooming until he can clarify the 1mm typing that was on some sheet of paper sticking out of the guy's back pocket that you can see in the mirror reflection of the girl's eye ball as she's looking through the plate glass window on the other side of the room, and that typing tells the lead where the other guy was last night and therefore solves his case for him?

I remember my first encounter of this while watching Blade Runner as a very young girl and THAT WAS THE ONLY PART OF THE MOVIE I RECALLED until I was well past high school and finally learned that the movie was about AI killer robots and the guys that hunt them down. All I could recall of the movie while growing up was that it's good to zoom into reflections that you can see in a picture because then you will find the next clue. By high school I learned that while this was an amazingly nifty concept in the movie, digital images simply don't act that way and zooming just gets you a close-up of a blurry zit.

Well, in the words of Mazda:

Zoom Zoom