It’s the little things

myrialux and I started watching The Expanse this week, in our perpetual search for a show we can both enjoy together (because 99% of shows out there either he likes or I like, but not both of us). We picked this one because we were both jonesing for science fiction and friends of ours had recommended this. What got me was a friend who said his favorite character was a bad man trying to be a good man. And oh yeah, that guy, Amos, is catnip to me.

Anyway it was the storyline following what the Amazon Prime synopses call “Holden and crew” that interested me—the other two were pretty boring—until they have finally begun to collide in episode 8 of season 1, which is where we are right now so NO SPOILERS.

But what the title of this post refers to is one little bit of business that I seriously appreciated (especially after having seen the premiere episode of Stargate a few years back which completely violated this). In one scene, Amos and Holden are in the arsenal room on their ship. Amos has a big gun and is sitting down while Holden paces around him.

As Holden passes in front of him, Amos lifts the gun’s muzzle up and away from him, so it’s never pointing directly at Holden. This is what you’re supposed to do according to the rules of gun safety and it really throws me out of the world when professional military and other characters who should be familiar with guns completely fail. Like, say, every single one of the military in Stargate, who were slinging their guns around every which way without paying any attention to where they pointed.