Unique Properties of Television Worlds
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I was going by episode count. According to IMDb, we're up to 60 of 104.
Oh, I didn't realize that. The later seasons must've been considerably shorter.
So less than four 12-episode weeks left.
ETA: Back on topic...how about The A-Team? You may remember, it took place in a world where unloading your semiautomatic rifle into somebody's car invariably resulted in them getting out of the overturned vehicle and dusting themselves off?
Then there's David Banner. Never mind the gamma rays and all of that. He was lucky that he lived in a world where it was customary for hoodlums to beat you up just enough to get you really angry, then promptly throw you someplace where they couldn't see you....
ETA: Back on topic...how about The A-Team? You may remember, it took place in a world where unloading your semiautomatic rifle into somebody's car invariably resulted in them getting out of the overturned vehicle and dusting themselves off?
Then there's David Banner. Never mind the gamma rays and all of that. He was lucky that he lived in a world where it was customary for hoodlums to beat you up just enough to get you really angry, then promptly throw you someplace where they couldn't see you....
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I've gotten pretty good at overlooking a lot of TV "oddities," but for some reason I just can't get used to seeing silencers on revolvers. 
In Banner's case I can deal with the non-realism. Just think about what happens to him in the more "realistic" Ruins comic...
The radiation turns him into a huge, pulsating mass of green tumors...and he is still alive.
My favorite example of The A-Team physics is from Battle of Bel-Air, where the baddies' helicopter slams full-speed into the side of a mountain, crashes to the ground and explodes in flames. They then cut to a scene of the baddies walking away, unscathed.
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I've gotten pretty good at overlooking a lot of TV "oddities," but for some reason I just can't get used to seeing silencers on revolvers.
I'm with you, to the point where one time that particular firearm configuration appeared on a show and my wife said "I know, don't say it!"
Then of course there's the myth that "silencers" actually make guns silent. They're actually called suppressors, because they just diminish the sound of a shot. As I understand it, they make it harder to hear a shot in a noisy environment, or make it sound more like a car backfiring or something, but it's not like you could shoot someone and have it go unnoticed by people in the next room. I think the little "pwif" sound that they usually use for TV/movie silencers is actually the sound of an airgun or something.
On the flip side, actual guns aren't quite as dramatically loud as they're traditionally made out to be on TV and in the movies--More "pop, pop, pop" than "BANG! BANG! BANG!"
I've read that in some productions, when a pistol was fired, they'd use the sound of a rifle or shotgun.
Not outdoors, perhaps. But conversely, they're loud enough to cause hearing damage in close quarters, and an ongoing gunfight can make the participants temporarily deaf. You know all those hand signals that soldier and commando types use to communicate to each other in TV and movies? I've read that those aren't really for stealth -- they're done because soldiers in combat are generally wearing earplugs to protect their hearing and thus can't hear each other (or because they may be temporarily deafened if they aren't wearing earplugs). And yet fictional characters can be in the middle of an extended indoor gun battle and experience no hearing problems of any kind.
And hold conversations amidst all the gunfire.
In all crime shows, DNA results take 30 minutes to come back.
And yet, after 9/11, Marvel did an issue of Spider-Man (in continuity) about how tragic it was.
Never mind all the times Doctor Doom, the Wrecking Crew, Hydra, or anyone else brought down entire buildings in New York. Or how many times a SHIELD Helicarrier has crashed into New York skyscrapers.
And the Marvel universe even has Damage Control to help clean up.
^Actually I don't think the 9/11 issue was in continuity. It interrupted the ongoing story arc, coming between the issue that ended with Aunt May discovering that Peter was Spider-Man and the issue that picked up immediately thereafter and dealt with her reactions to the discovery. It even opened with a text caption saying "We interrupt our regularly scheduled programming." It was meant to be a symbolic statement about real-world events. True, the destruction of the World Trade Center was incorporated into Marvel continuity thereafter, but I don't know if the part about Dr. Doom and Magneto and the like showing up to help search for survivors was ever acknowledged.
There was an episode of the animated Godzilla: The Series (sequel to the '98 Emmerich film) where Godzilla tore down the Sears Tower, the tallest building in the US at the time, to try to get to an enemy monster. None of the characters seemed bothered by it in the least, and it was completely forgotten about by 20 seconds after it happened. It wasn't one of the series' more intelligently written episodes.
There was an episode of the animated Godzilla: The Series (sequel to the '98 Emmerich film) where Godzilla tore down the Sears Tower, the tallest building in the US at the time, to try to get to an enemy monster. None of the characters seemed bothered by it in the least, and it was completely forgotten about by 20 seconds after it happened. It wasn't one of the series' more intelligently written episodes.
I can't remember, did DC Comics ever deal with 9/11? Did it happen in Metropolis as opposed to NYC? If it did happen, why didn't Superman stop it?
God I hated that issue.
Doom crying over dead Americans? No way. He might not applaud it but he wouldn't care either way.
And magneto? He'd consider 3000 dead humans a good start nothing more
Unless Mutants were also killed in the attack?
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