{"id":359,"date":"2008-10-15T11:21:02","date_gmt":"2008-10-15T18:21:02","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/?p=359"},"modified":"2008-10-15T11:27:51","modified_gmt":"2008-10-15T18:27:51","slug":"boston-legalshatner-trailer-follow-up","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.harmonicminer.com\/wordpress\/2008\/10\/15\/boston-legalshatner-trailer-follow-up\/","title":{"rendered":"Boston Legal\/Shatner trailer follow up"},"content":{"rendered":"

If you didn’t see it yet, go here<\/a> and watch the video!\u00a0 Then continue below for some thoughts.<\/p>\n

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I have my suspicions about why the video was removed from the first site where I linked it yesterday, but I’ll reserve them for now.<\/p>\n

I don’t know about you, but I found the mugger to be unusually well-spoken.\u00a0 He did not sound much like what I imagine comes from the mouth of an inner-city hoodlum in Boston.\u00a0 He sounded just a bit too much like an aspiring actor, recent graduate of acting school, answering the cattle call for a well-dressed black criminal casting.\u00a0 And you know what?\u00a0 If they had cast a less sympathetic sounding black criminal, someone who really looked and sounded the part, they would probably have been called racist or something…\u00a0 which they may be anyway.<\/p>\n

Then there was the Shatner character.\u00a0 For an attorney, accustomed to the combat of litigation, but not the physical combat of life and death, he was amazingly cool.\u00a0 I know, it’s a TV show….\u00a0 but give me a break.<\/p>\n

And then, the very silliest:\u00a0 we’re supposed to believe that Shatner, shooting from the hip at a range of 7-10 feet or so, can call his shots to the knee and the feet?\u00a0 That someone who CAN shoot that well would choose to shoot that way is beyond ridiculous (takes LOTS of practice:\u00a0 you can’t believe how many police officers have emptied their weapons at short range and missed with nearly every shot, shooting at bigger targets than knees and feet: shooting for your life is STRESSFUL, and people who practice that much or are trained that well haven’t been practicing doing hip shooting at knees and feet).\u00a0 So, a suggestion:\u00a0 if you ever have to shoot for your life at a distance greater than arms-length, AIM, for the center of the chest.\u00a0 You don’t have to be perfect and shoot bullseyes, so don’t go slow, but do AIM.\u00a0 Better yet, practice AIMING and shooting before the occasion arrives, so you develop the right reflexes and habits….\u00a0 you’ll probably have tunnel vision at the time, and the large muscle memory you’ve developed by practicing while AIMING may be all that saves you.\u00a0 Practice enough and you reach a point where you mostly just have to look at what you want to shoot and the gun just lines up on it.\u00a0 After, oh, 20,000 rounds of practice, of course.<\/p>\n

And by the way:\u00a0 if there are two of you being robbed by one guy, the best time to shoot back, if you decide to, is when the perp is busy taking stuff from the other guy.\u00a0 Look scared…\u00a0 it gives the perp confidence.<\/p>\n

Personally, I stay out of underground garages at night, unless I’m with about six people, since an iPod makes a lousy weapon, and I live in California, where only criminals are allowed to carry guns, unlike the 40 states that have concealed carry laws guaranteeing honest citizens the right.<\/p>\n

And of course, the silly Hollywood convention of the criminal COCKING the gun after several lines of dialog between him and the victims is in full flower here, as if he’d been pointing a gun that wasn’t ready to fire all that time.\u00a0 Hollywood script writers are utterly, completely, cluelessly ignorant about guns.\u00a0 Yet they write about them all the time.\u00a0 Don’t you find yourself wondering if they are also as ignorant about everything ELSE they write about a lot?<\/p>\n

Most Boston Legal watchers, of course, have no clue who Liberty Valance was…\u00a0 But of course, Hollywierdos all know about old movies.<\/p>\n

Shatner’s line, “We’re trying to get an African-American elected for president…”\u00a0 is simply fascinating.\u00a0 What “we”?\u00a0 Lawyers?\u00a0 Bostonians?\u00a0 Rich white people?\u00a0 Actors?\u00a0 Screenwriters? \u00a0 And the line seems to imply that the point isn’t to elect OBAMA, but to elect “an African-American”.\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0 With Obama as place-holder for African-Americans everywhere?\u00a0 Doesn’t really matter WHICH one, as long as we GET one?<\/p>\n

Most delicious of all, of course, is that the Shatner character implies that the black criminal should dial back on his normal criminally violent behavior just long enough for “us” to get Obama elected, and then he can go back to business as usual.<\/p>\n

I suppose it’s possible that the Shatner character could be construed as not really meaning any of it, and just talking to distract while he waits for the time to make his move.\u00a0 But for that to work, we have to be assuming that the Shatner character thinks this whole line of thought will be attractive to the black criminal.<\/p>\n

This whole scene is really a window into the minds of Hollywierd script writers, isn’t it?<\/p>\n

And of course, we know that black criminals everywhere are almost certainly planning to vote for Obama. \u00a0 I expect that nearly 100% of voting black criminals will hang a chad for the ONE.\u00a0 And we can assume that ACORN has managed to get them illegally registered if they’ve already been convicted of a felony, at least in battleground states.\u00a0 Which, if Obama is elected, may well become REAL battlegrounds.<\/p>\n

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