Dr. Yiff Revitalized

"Uhm when robocop blows a guys brains out there's a Coca-Cola ad in the background that gets splattered with gore, we don't like that" Too fucking bad, this is an artistic work.

"Uhm when the sadistic killer rapes that guy with a broken bottle, does it have to be a Coke bottle?" YES IT DOES. You don't get to flood the planet with your brand for generations then dictate where it can't appear!

The computers can hold the plane at a maximum angle of attack (the angle of airflow across the lifting surfaces of the wing) and minimum speed, and won't let the pilots exceed that and stall the plane.

You can pull back as much as you want on the stick and the computer simply won't let you stall. If you do put the plane in a bank that is too steep or most any other unstable situation if you just let go of the controls the computers will work to stabilize things.

Most issues involve cases where those protections are not available, and pilots wind up not knowing how to fly their aircraft. Incidents don't happen often in general, but when they happen on an Airbus you're likely to find a flight crew that didn't know what to do without the computer...or didn't know some fundamental aspect of the role they play.

Anyway, back on flight 1829 you had those computers being fed data suggesting the angle of attack was too high and a stall was imminent. At that point the computer overrides the pilots, like I mentioned earlier. To get out of an impending stall the most simple move is to lower the nose of the aircraft, which is what the computer does.

Same with cars and anything else where branding is obvious IRL: when that stuff is absent it's more grating than seeing a real world brand name, because you know one should be there. "Uhm you know Ford paid to have that car in there" oh no shit? Oh that just ruins the movie, I mean it sticks out like a sore thumb, seeing a Ford. You never see those IRL.

Now if the camera lingers on the Ford logo, puts it front and center in every shot, and the characters start talking about the features of their wonderful Ford product...ok fuck off.

The above actually happened in a later episode of House, BTW.

So there's a fine line there, but living in a world of branding it's worse to me when that branding is gone or obviously fake.