Church scenes where there’s music in the background. Often the characters wander into an empty church where nothing is happening and yet the choir (or organist) can always be heard. That’s very unlikely in my experience. And when there is some sort of service going on the music the choir is singing is generally wrong for what’s happening in the church. It’s clear that someone has just reached for a CD of miscellaneous religious music.
All manner of errors with military characters make me crazy. It might be uniforms, terminology, or customs that can be checked so easily. One that always gets me yelling at the screen is having Navy personnel saluting indoors and uncovered (without hats.) The Navy does not salute uncovered, and definitely not in offices in the Pentagon!
I’ve seen shows where officers talk about reenlisting - WRONG! You’re an officer until you resign your commission or you’re booted out. You don’t have to extend a service contract like an enlisted person.
I’ve been told that movies are required to alter uniforms so they’re no longer militarily correct - I don’t know how true that is, but simple things like hair lengths and shoe styles don’t need to be all over the place - Navy women don’t wear strappy pumps in uniform.
And related to the church music, not every Catholic priest in the world has an Irish accent. Nor do they all address everyone as “my child” or “my son.” Does that count as a stupid error or is it just a stupid stereotype?
Indeed. Another one is nuns in formal habits. Except for some of the newer traditionalist orders, nuns haven’t worn habits for over thirty years.
Lampshaded nicely in Terminator: the Sarah Conner Chronicles when she has the family couch lined with kevlar vests just for such a purpose.
Eh I think I know the episode you’re talking about and that was set an unknown amount of time into the future, and the asteroid was a prison for criminals not something recently discovered. So I pretty much assumed it was an artificial creation, terraformed or something like that.
Oh I hate it when someone drinks something that has been drugged, or is injected outside a vein with a drug like a dart in the butt and in either case they go woozy and pass out IMMEDIATELY.
Makes me wonder if the writers have ever taken a pill in their life, it never works instantly.
I can’t help but wonder if this is the result of some sort of generational thing—with older works more likely to have had actors with actual military, and even combat, experience.
Similarly, someone has been drugged or hit on the head and is on the verge of unconsciousness. Our view of them is blurred, for some reason.
News to me, and most of the people I work with. The arm of the scope is away from me. Perhaps this is something that varies by industry/use/preference?
I think I’ve seen it both ways, and the ones were the arm of the scope is towards the user tend to be the ones that are for teaching purposes or not frequently used/used as a job component.
So either way is fine.
Not only that, but they never realize that they can get away from a car by getting behind something (like a tree, or other cars), or changing levels (go up or down stairs, or over an edge) and avoiding things like alleyways with no other exits, or by at least taking advantage of the fact that a person on foot has a much tighter turning radius than a car, and going off at right angles to the car’s path (then ducking for cover, or whatever). If you have enough warning, and aren’t out in the middle of a parking lot, you ought to have options. But that’d make for a less visually interesting show.
As has been mentioned, there is one model of revolver which can be silenced - the Nagant M1895, a Russian design which has a “gas seal” between the cylinder and the barrel. The NKVD used silenced Nagants during WWII and the KGB almost certainly did during the Cold War as well.
The design, as the name indicates, dates from 1895. The trade-off to creating the gas seal is a really, really heavy trigger pull and maybe an extra 50fps in muzzle velocity - basically not worth it, which is why the Nagant is pretty much the only revolver which has used the “gas seal” system.
“Wait a minute; I’m confused. Didn’t you rape eleven women last year?”
“OBJECTION!”
“Withdrawn.” [/holds up palms, takes two steps backwards]
In the L&O-verse, lawyers can get away with anything by adding the magic word.
I’m saying the tv (and movie) error is actors using it with the arm closer to them, hence “backwards”. I remember seeing Jurassic Park back in the 90s in grad school, with friends. We all noticed the backwards scope (rotated the occulars so that they used the scope backwards).
Sorry if that wasn’t clear.
Confused: The first half of this seems to say it’s bad to hold weapons far away from the body, but the second half seems to say it’s bad to hold weapons close to the body.
Ship captains don’t marry people!
Never mind I see you fixed it later!
I edited it later on to reflect that in OLDER shows characters held weapons closer to their bodies to prevent them from being seized, but in newer shows this rarely occurs. I didn’t proofread it very well prior to posting.
A few more things:
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[li]Characters who arrive at a scene at the same time asking another character an expository " What’s happening?" And expecting an accurate answer - I’m waiting for the other to say “How the hell do I know? I just go here too!”[/li][li]Criminals being at the address the police have for them - if it were that easy, there’d be no need for fugitive task forces.[/li][li]Unlimited funds/unlimited food/unlimited clothing - Even the poorest characters on TV have enough money to never have empty refrigerators. They always seem to have enough money to go drinking or go out. And regardless of their economic status, they have multiple changes of clothing. This is so tiring that people have just grown to accept it.[/li][li]Military members carrying weapons and saluting - it’s called being “under arms” and you don’t have to salute. Doing so will actually make you unable to use your weapon in emergencies. [/li][/ol]
People running away from a moving threat by running in front of it in the same direction when simply stepping aside would work. Or when Godzilla( for example) comes down the street, everyone on the left side of the street needs suddenly to be on the right and those on the right need to be on the left!
This is spoofed in the “Community” parody of L&O, as Annie repeatedly accuses Todd of increasingly unlikely sins, saying “Withdrawn” after each one.
Nonsense, I know a ship captain who’s been married three times and every time he married a person.
Billy Bob Git-fiddle goes into “the studio” to record his boffo tunes and the recording engineer puts him and his guitar in front of ONE MIC. Usually he’s not wearing headphones to monitor the rest of the tracks he’s playing against, and 9 times outta 10 all the other tracks have been recorded ahead of time without him there.
Catch Phoebe on “Friends” when they go to record “Smelly Cat.”