silverlance
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I see a lot of posts about things that are pretty much suspension of disbelief - like 72 round revolvers and and shooting a gun out of another guy's hand from a mile away. But at least I can make up excuses for those things. For instance, I can choose to believe that he is reloading his gun off camera, or that he is just an INSANELY good shot. He is, after all, the hero.
But the two examples I gave above are just outrageously far fetched. As someone on this board postaed a while back, it's one thing to suspend disbelief in the interest of a good story. But when a flamingo outruns an F14 fighter jet, it's not entertainment, it's stupid.
Here's another example, from Mel Gibson's Lethal Weapon 4.
- This is the scene where Mel is fighting off the yellow snakehead peril in some sort of construction yard. The bad guys have taken cover behind some Caterpillars, and Mel can't get a clear shot at them because they've got supressive fire on him. So what does he do? Well, he angles his glock so that the laser sight reflects off of the non-reflective matte yellow surface of a bulldozer's claw, and onto the back of an unsuspecting Chinaman. Our hero's bullet then proceeds to follow the path of the laser beam unerringly on a 90-degree angled turn, striking the hapless bad guy down DRT.
I didn't mention A-Team (although that's exactly what the guy walking off a helicopter crash scene reminded me of) because well, that's a whole different genre that wasn't allowed to show people getting killed easily back then.
But since we're on TV shows... Heroes is one of my favorite TV shows, but in the last episode (and quite possibly the last due to the strike) the Plague-Girl Maia gets shot by the power-leech villian (I forget his name). 10 yards away, right in the COM from a tricked out Desert Eagle looking gun. Bam, dead on the spot. Okay, I can accept that, even though I know death-ray kills aren't exactly realistic. The good doctor then uses blood from a healing mutant to bring her back from the dead. That's okay too, since this is Sci Fi after all. Her gaping wound closes up of its own accord, and the projectile oozes back out and into the doctor's hand... and the projectile is an empty 9mm brass casing! I don't know about company policy, but if I was issued a gun that ejects the bullet and throws the casing, I'd probably stick to Tasers since that might actually kill someone.
But the two examples I gave above are just outrageously far fetched. As someone on this board postaed a while back, it's one thing to suspend disbelief in the interest of a good story. But when a flamingo outruns an F14 fighter jet, it's not entertainment, it's stupid.
Here's another example, from Mel Gibson's Lethal Weapon 4.
- This is the scene where Mel is fighting off the yellow snakehead peril in some sort of construction yard. The bad guys have taken cover behind some Caterpillars, and Mel can't get a clear shot at them because they've got supressive fire on him. So what does he do? Well, he angles his glock so that the laser sight reflects off of the non-reflective matte yellow surface of a bulldozer's claw, and onto the back of an unsuspecting Chinaman. Our hero's bullet then proceeds to follow the path of the laser beam unerringly on a 90-degree angled turn, striking the hapless bad guy down DRT.
I didn't mention A-Team (although that's exactly what the guy walking off a helicopter crash scene reminded me of) because well, that's a whole different genre that wasn't allowed to show people getting killed easily back then.
But since we're on TV shows... Heroes is one of my favorite TV shows, but in the last episode (and quite possibly the last due to the strike) the Plague-Girl Maia gets shot by the power-leech villian (I forget his name). 10 yards away, right in the COM from a tricked out Desert Eagle looking gun. Bam, dead on the spot. Okay, I can accept that, even though I know death-ray kills aren't exactly realistic. The good doctor then uses blood from a healing mutant to bring her back from the dead. That's okay too, since this is Sci Fi after all. Her gaping wound closes up of its own accord, and the projectile oozes back out and into the doctor's hand... and the projectile is an empty 9mm brass casing! I don't know about company policy, but if I was issued a gun that ejects the bullet and throws the casing, I'd probably stick to Tasers since that might actually kill someone.
