A Twist of Things to Come

Doctor Who! It was so cool to be able to snuggle up with my geeklings and watch the first ep of this new season. The dedication to Elisabeth Sladen was nice, but I hadn't told the boys that "Sarah Jane" was dead, so I stopped the video and took the opportunity then. *sigh* They were sad. We watched some of the last season of Sarah Jane Adventures after Doctor Who. I think that helped.

( Minor spoilers and American Jokes )

That gave me the willies. You never, ever point a gun at something you don't want to die/have a hole in it. Ever.

I'm a pretty good shot. My Beloved and I used to target practice a lot when we were first married and childless. I can take a handgun apart, clean it, put it back together and shoot it with decent accuracy. I have enough experience with firearms to know that even most American TV shows and movies get some aspect of gun use wrong (not usually as spectacularly wrong as entertainment produced by countries with a less armed populace, certainly, but still), whether it is how many shots in a particular firearm or Foley-editing in the sound of a cocking gun when the weapon in the actor's hand isn't one that cocks. It happens.

So it generally doesn't annoy me, just like the utter implausibility of Watson shooting the killer over that distance in "A Study in Pink" didn't bother me. (It's not an issue of being a crack shot -- it's an issue of the limitations of the firearm in question -- more of a physics thing, but storytellers aren't physicists. Tell me a good story, and physics can go screw itself, really.)

But still. *shudder* Maybe it was deliberate foreshadowing of the ... Thing That Won't Happen. I'll tell myself that, so my brain will stop hurting.