Speed Grapher
About halfway through this series, bought on the cheap, and I am enjoying it.
But even a show that has a guy blowing up stuff with his camera and a girl being chased by a uber rich cult of baddies isn't above some obvious snark.
1) Horrible trigger discipline. On everybody. And there are some scenes that are flashbacks to when Saiga, the hero, was a combat photographer. They actually refer to a mission as being a "search & destroy". Like, nobody did any research whatsoever.
And the gun COCKING. In one scene, a group of guys cocks their machineguns, as a group, like... 3 times... as they're about to stealthily attack a house where the hero's hiding out.
Okay, let alone that you should've cocked your gun a while back (at least, if you're trying to take someone by surprise) to not reveal your position. After the first cocking action, I think you're just spitting out unspent rounds onto the grass.
I know, there's probably a great deal of difference between how mafia are trained and... well... anyone with firearms training, probably...
It just... every once in a while, it's really obvious that pretty much no one in Japan is allowed to own a gun. And that whole, 'no standing army' thing...
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In other news, I managed to hear Olbermann's baby tantrum from last night over Scott Brown's election. Kieth Olbermann, one helluva class act. Oh, and if we aren't calling any senator "Scotty" right now, Mr. Brown should take up the mantle. And speak in a fake gaelic accent.
And I might have to grab Marc Theissen's book, Courting Disaster
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ConFusion is this weekend, one of my 'relax-a-cons'. The convention in Troy is one of those shrinking sci-fi cons, but Peter S. Beagle will be there, so I intend to get my copy of The Last Unicorn signed.
But even a show that has a guy blowing up stuff with his camera and a girl being chased by a uber rich cult of baddies isn't above some obvious snark.
1) Horrible trigger discipline. On everybody. And there are some scenes that are flashbacks to when Saiga, the hero, was a combat photographer. They actually refer to a mission as being a "search & destroy". Like, nobody did any research whatsoever.
And the gun COCKING. In one scene, a group of guys cocks their machineguns, as a group, like... 3 times... as they're about to stealthily attack a house where the hero's hiding out.
Okay, let alone that you should've cocked your gun a while back (at least, if you're trying to take someone by surprise) to not reveal your position. After the first cocking action, I think you're just spitting out unspent rounds onto the grass.
I know, there's probably a great deal of difference between how mafia are trained and... well... anyone with firearms training, probably...
It just... every once in a while, it's really obvious that pretty much no one in Japan is allowed to own a gun. And that whole, 'no standing army' thing...
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In other news, I managed to hear Olbermann's baby tantrum from last night over Scott Brown's election. Kieth Olbermann, one helluva class act. Oh, and if we aren't calling any senator "Scotty" right now, Mr. Brown should take up the mantle. And speak in a fake gaelic accent.
And I might have to grab Marc Theissen's book, Courting Disaster
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ConFusion is this weekend, one of my 'relax-a-cons'. The convention in Troy is one of those shrinking sci-fi cons, but Peter S. Beagle will be there, so I intend to get my copy of The Last Unicorn signed.