It’s the little things

[telophase]

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.

Comments

[adafrog]

I didn't know that about guns. But I can see where it would throw you out. Medical stuff tends to throw me out, so I don't even watch those shows. Also, it's like going to work.

[telophase]

I don't come from a RAH RAH GUNS family, but my dad hunted (he was also a wildlife ecologist), and he taught me the absolute basics of gun safety, so I notice it.

I can imagine it about medical stuff!

Amusing note: one of my aunts taught theatre at a university until she retired, and one Thanksgiving she invited a colleague who hadn't been able to go home that year. She was a professor of voice--the theatre kind, not the singing kind--so she taught diction, communicating emotion and other things effectively with the voice, etc. She told us that because of this, she was painfully attuned to how terrible most Hollywood actors are to this, and the only movie she could watch was the 2000 Charlie's Angels because it was so stupid that she could overlook the voice!

[adafrog]

My dad hunted, but he didn't really teach us. I was usually the retriever. :/ Luckily he really didn't hunt that often.

Once in La Femme Nikita Madeline picked up this object, and a whirring sound came on, like it was a torture instrument. I just laughed because it was really for intubating people.

Oh, man. I'll bet! I sometimes do that with popular singers because I've been in choir forever and we get yelled at on a regular basis for diction.

[selenite0]

The Expanse gets lots of stuff right, to the point where it's even more painful to me when they palm a card. Amos does do some great stuff. His finest moment is season 3 ep 6.

[telophase]

Haha, cool. XD

Looking forward to that episode!