Thursday, August 18, 2005
Short TV Blog
I really wasn't into Over There (FX channel, Wednesdays at 8:00 Denver time) last night. Didn't follow everything that was going on and certainly didn't understand how a guy with a radio and binoculars improves the aim of over the horizon mortar crews against moving targets on a road whose distance from the mortar pit could be measured to the millimeter. (Nor why we couldn't spot the mortars with a Predator or with radar). Really stupid. I mean bone-an-inch-thick- headed. OK, if he's telling the speed of the vehicle and where it is on the road so the mortar men know when to shoot, I get it; but without the spotter, the mortar rounds weren't even hitting the road. What?
Mrs. B, the girl driver, became much more interesting--very religious girl in the army who will crush the hand of a dead enemy for grins and now she's into casual sex with Haliburton types. More complex than the average TV woman character. She suddenly looked better and much more voluptuous too. (Or was that just me?)
OK, the gun part. The .223 is accurate and flat shooting and there's nothing wrong with using it as a medium range sniper round even out of an M-16 on semi-auto (as they showed King moving the selector to from the back side). But he used the fleshy part of the end of his finger (rather than the area right over the last joint--'bone on bone' is a cardinal rule of sniping) and he jerked the shot rather than slowly squeezing until the explosion is a surprise. No way he made that, what? 250 yard shot in real life.
Kinda of a step backwards for the show from my point of view.
Mrs. B, the girl driver, became much more interesting--very religious girl in the army who will crush the hand of a dead enemy for grins and now she's into casual sex with Haliburton types. More complex than the average TV woman character. She suddenly looked better and much more voluptuous too. (Or was that just me?)
OK, the gun part. The .223 is accurate and flat shooting and there's nothing wrong with using it as a medium range sniper round even out of an M-16 on semi-auto (as they showed King moving the selector to from the back side). But he used the fleshy part of the end of his finger (rather than the area right over the last joint--'bone on bone' is a cardinal rule of sniping) and he jerked the shot rather than slowly squeezing until the explosion is a surprise. No way he made that, what? 250 yard shot in real life.
Kinda of a step backwards for the show from my point of view.
# posted by Roger Fraley @ 7:12 PM 
