Monday, May 21, 2012

Sherlock

In the Great Game, Sherlock goes all teacup stance with Watson's 9mm.  Poor Brits...  They've lost it all, by 2011.  All their innate gun handling skills.  Pointed it at Moriarty that way.

Ok, so all movie/TV productions make that mistake.  Didn't Black Widow do the same with a baby Glock in Avengers movie?

Speaking of model.  Moriarty named the pistol Sherlock was about to point at him.  Called it am L9A1.  The venerable Browning Hi-Power.  Though the only pistol I've seen in the series is Watson's SIG.  And... yup, that's what Cumberbatch's Holmes is holding.

 
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Also.  Saw Aliens, again, this weekend.  Vasquez carries a 1911 in that movie.  Just goes to show...  There might be some unknown flaw in the plastic pistols to make them inappropriate for Space Marines 100s of years in the future...
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8 comments:

  1. TamMay 21, 2012 at 9:00 AM

    Vasquez's personal sidearm is a Smith 39-2.

    Nothing wrong with plastic pistols in the future: All the other USCM troops carry the standard issue VP70Z.

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  2. New Jovian ThunderboltMay 21, 2012 at 9:46 AM

    Please tell me the white grip pistol she was last shooting before death-by-grenade with the Lt. was someone elses 1911...

    I'd hate to think that detail got by me, IDing a 1911 incorrectly. That's as bad as confusing a Canadian dollar with a greenback.

    Wait! I'll check the imfdb!

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  3. New Jovian ThunderboltMay 21, 2012 at 9:49 AM

    DAMMIT! It is a Smiff.

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  4. New Jovian ThunderboltMay 21, 2012 at 9:51 AM

    I DID double check the Sherlock gun, if I was a little careless with the Aliens gun. Held in his teacupped little british hand you can clearly see a decocker and a SIG takedown lever. Clearly not a Browning.

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  5. TamMay 21, 2012 at 10:24 AM

    I'm such a nerd that I actually have the Aliens technical manual around here someplace. :o

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  6. AaronMay 21, 2012 at 1:18 PM

    I caught the mislabel on the Sherlock Sig as well (aside from that it's a great and clever reboot of a classic).

    I guess the SIG's proper British service designation of L105A1 just doesn't have the same ring.

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  7. New Jovian ThunderboltMay 21, 2012 at 2:22 PM

    Or maybe Moriart and Holmes aren't REALLY as smart as they think they are...

    I do love the show. It is quite a good reboot.

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  8. Angus McThagMay 21, 2012 at 4:00 PM

    In the future, in space, I know what steel does in vacuum and when exposed to radiation unfiltered by 100 miles of atmosphere and magnetic field.

    How does the polymer formula in a Glock respond to those conditions? Perhaps not well and plastic guns are virtually abandoned for space use.

    H&K guns work because Teutonic Gnome Dust® effectively seals the plastic from the harmful outgassing in hard vacuum.

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