Dobbs might still have won (and other problems)

It really annoyed me when during Eleanor’s (eventual) confession to Tom he asked “so I didn’t win?” and she said “not even close”. That is completely unfounded. The bug in the program only caused the results to be incorrect, but there is nothing that says he lost, let alone by what margin.

Granted, they made a big fuss about it being a surprise that he won, but then they also made a big deal about him being very popular. There is no reason that he couldn’t have won even if the machines worked correctly. Moreover, her statement of “not even close” implies that she had the correct results, but that was obviously not the case; she could not have said such a thing.

The only thing that she could say for certain was that the machines were buggy and the results were unreliable; she can make no statement of their accuracy. I kept wishing he would have asked who really won, but that would have exposed the flaw in the plot.



It was also really annoying that nobody, not even Eleanor questioned the plausibility of her injecting a dozen different drugs into her shoulder.

Also the bug itself seemed to be contrived because it makes no sense that it would affect the results based on double letters at random positions in the name (Kellogg has a double-l, yet for some reason it used the double-g instead to beat the double-l in Mills). That would require some extremely bad coding, and thus she would deserve to be fired. If anything, it would have made more sense to say that the alphabetical sorting was due to Dobbs<Kellogg<Mills. Duh.




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