Not a detail-oriented production...
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which_chickI'm watching... Prodigal Son, Netflix. It's the pilot episode because of course you start at the beginning.
Dude is filling a syringe.
Like, no. No. Everybody I know who does anything with syringes does this with the bottle upside down and the needle underneath it. Like, that's just good practice. Also, if you've done any quantity of shots, you tend to pre-fill the syringe with air to the volume of the shot (especially for Procaine like you give to large livestock) and push that into the bottle so that you can then easily non-vacuum-ish take out like 10ml for shooting IM into your cowieow or your horsie. Has this actor never gotten a shot? I have questions.
Details matter. They offer realism to your entertainment media even when the shit isn't very realistic. Look. I'm trying to have nice serial killer media for knitting and shit like this just fucks it all up. *argh*
This show also missed the opportunity to talk about shibari and just... pussed out with Japanese rope bondage when they COULD HAVE said "Shibari" (no explanation) where another character could have said, "What?" and then a third character could have said, "Japanese rope bondage" which would be both fun and illuminating about more than one of our characters. Total missed opportunity. (How do I know about shibari? I read a lot. Also, side note, my facebook is now pimping bespoke porn. I guess in the future, none of us have to engage in prêt-à-porter smut. Something something sweetsecrets.app has been spending a shitbucket of money advertising to deadbedroom postmenopausal me. There's money wasted, facebook. Refine your fucking algo.)
I do not know enough about a lot of stuff to tell if it's realish or not and I do get that most of the time actors are being asked to do shit that they don't actually do in their real lives. There's a certain amount of suspension of disbelief that I'm willing to do when engaging with entertainment media.
You want there to be magical flaming horse? Yes.
You want magical flaming motorcycle? Yes.
I'm good with all of that.
You want the flaming horse to look like it's running normally while keeping pace with the flaming motorcycle?
OK, but they aren't going very damn fast then because horse locomotion is a thing that I know about, it's a function of stride length and cadence. Like, it's math. The magical flaming horse has a stride of 25 feet (Secretariat, hello!) and does x strides per second and we can fucking SEE that pace. This is where my suspension of disbelief falls and goes splat.
(The above scenario is from the movie Ghostrider, which I discussed in 2007.)
I revisited the topic along about 2014 in a now-gone post from The Tumblr Era in which Teen Wolf did the same thing with a motorcycle and a werewolf, same fucking problem of cadence and stride length not matching up to pace. You cannot make the legs go fast enough to keep up with the motorcycle unless you do some sort of roadrunner blur that 100% will look dumb as shit. And so they don't do the roadrunner blur, but then the math doesn't math and I am unhappy.
Anyway. Action actors do a lot of guns because we as a society like guns and use guns in a ton of our entertainment media. Also, the people who like guns like guns A LOT and give a ton of fucks if the guns are realistic and appropriate and stuff. I personally do not notice if media does guns badly until the errors are super bad like in this AI video which is still fucking inexplicably charming despite the very serious and concerning walrus guns:
On more normal firearms, the curvy bendy ammunition clip thingie points in a downward direction as we can see from the wikipedia entry for an AK-47. Note that I am not a gun nerd, but this error with the walruses was sufficient to irritate me. (In case you are wondering how the bullets get "up" into the gun from a below-the-gun clip, the answer is springs. You load the clip by carefully pressing the bullets down into it one by one and thereby compressing the spring. Then, when you are using the gun, the springs in the clip push the bullets up to be fired.)
Also looking at that still, I have some questions about the walrus ears. In real life walruses and other pinnipeds have very tiny ears. The walrus ears seem like probably AI needs to spend more time looking at pictures of real walruses in order to do a better job with the ears. One of those ears looks like a dog ear and other ears look more... hippo than walrus.
Yes, the walrus hands are also wrong. Walruses are not equipped for bipedal vertical locomotion. They also don't wear clothing. I get it. But the walruses need hands to use the guns, so I can understand that. That's wrong FOR A REASON. So is the standing and the clothing. But the ears... there is no reason for the walrus ears to be wrong. The walrus ears could be realistic. The walrus guns could be realistic.
Dude is filling a syringe.
Like, no. No. Everybody I know who does anything with syringes does this with the bottle upside down and the needle underneath it. Like, that's just good practice. Also, if you've done any quantity of shots, you tend to pre-fill the syringe with air to the volume of the shot (especially for Procaine like you give to large livestock) and push that into the bottle so that you can then easily non-vacuum-ish take out like 10ml for shooting IM into your cowieow or your horsie. Has this actor never gotten a shot? I have questions.
Details matter. They offer realism to your entertainment media even when the shit isn't very realistic. Look. I'm trying to have nice serial killer media for knitting and shit like this just fucks it all up. *argh*
This show also missed the opportunity to talk about shibari and just... pussed out with Japanese rope bondage when they COULD HAVE said "Shibari" (no explanation) where another character could have said, "What?" and then a third character could have said, "Japanese rope bondage" which would be both fun and illuminating about more than one of our characters. Total missed opportunity. (How do I know about shibari? I read a lot. Also, side note, my facebook is now pimping bespoke porn. I guess in the future, none of us have to engage in prêt-à-porter smut. Something something sweetsecrets.app has been spending a shitbucket of money advertising to deadbedroom postmenopausal me. There's money wasted, facebook. Refine your fucking algo.)
I do not know enough about a lot of stuff to tell if it's realish or not and I do get that most of the time actors are being asked to do shit that they don't actually do in their real lives. There's a certain amount of suspension of disbelief that I'm willing to do when engaging with entertainment media.
You want there to be magical flaming horse? Yes.
You want magical flaming motorcycle? Yes.
I'm good with all of that.
You want the flaming horse to look like it's running normally while keeping pace with the flaming motorcycle?
OK, but they aren't going very damn fast then because horse locomotion is a thing that I know about, it's a function of stride length and cadence. Like, it's math. The magical flaming horse has a stride of 25 feet (Secretariat, hello!) and does x strides per second and we can fucking SEE that pace. This is where my suspension of disbelief falls and goes splat.
(The above scenario is from the movie Ghostrider, which I discussed in 2007.)
I revisited the topic along about 2014 in a now-gone post from The Tumblr Era in which Teen Wolf did the same thing with a motorcycle and a werewolf, same fucking problem of cadence and stride length not matching up to pace. You cannot make the legs go fast enough to keep up with the motorcycle unless you do some sort of roadrunner blur that 100% will look dumb as shit. And so they don't do the roadrunner blur, but then the math doesn't math and I am unhappy.
Anyway. Action actors do a lot of guns because we as a society like guns and use guns in a ton of our entertainment media. Also, the people who like guns like guns A LOT and give a ton of fucks if the guns are realistic and appropriate and stuff. I personally do not notice if media does guns badly until the errors are super bad like in this AI video which is still fucking inexplicably charming despite the very serious and concerning walrus guns:
On more normal firearms, the curvy bendy ammunition clip thingie points in a downward direction as we can see from the wikipedia entry for an AK-47. Note that I am not a gun nerd, but this error with the walruses was sufficient to irritate me. (In case you are wondering how the bullets get "up" into the gun from a below-the-gun clip, the answer is springs. You load the clip by carefully pressing the bullets down into it one by one and thereby compressing the spring. Then, when you are using the gun, the springs in the clip push the bullets up to be fired.)
Also looking at that still, I have some questions about the walrus ears. In real life walruses and other pinnipeds have very tiny ears. The walrus ears seem like probably AI needs to spend more time looking at pictures of real walruses in order to do a better job with the ears. One of those ears looks like a dog ear and other ears look more... hippo than walrus.
Yes, the walrus hands are also wrong. Walruses are not equipped for bipedal vertical locomotion. They also don't wear clothing. I get it. But the walruses need hands to use the guns, so I can understand that. That's wrong FOR A REASON. So is the standing and the clothing. But the ears... there is no reason for the walrus ears to be wrong. The walrus ears could be realistic. The walrus guns could be realistic.
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Date: 2026-04-06 02:00 am (UTC)no subject
Date: 2026-04-06 02:26 am (UTC)Happily I know very little about medicine and can watch medical shows with enthusiasm uncluttered by facts. :)
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Date: 2026-04-06 04:30 am (UTC)If you want me to suspend my disbelief for certain things (the flaming horse, the walruses holding guns) then you've got to make the *other* aspects work well enough that I'm not questioning them.
People get very obnoxious about "why would you expect realism when there are dragons?" (or whatever.) Like yeah, I am willing to accept the dragons. That doesn't mean that watching people do shit that doesn't make sense isn't going to break my suspension of disbelief.