This money, it is too much. You should have some small refund.
Niska ,'War Stories'
Lost: OMGWTF POLAR BEAR
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sumi - Mar 25, 2005 9:57:02 am PST #7130 of 10000
Art Crawl!!!
Jessica - Mar 25, 2005 10:01:19 am PST #7131 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
Ah....huh.
"I love him, Harrison Ford. That's what I used for my prep. I wanted Sawyer to be a cross between Han Solo and maybe Wolverine -- a little more edge and anger to him, but with the lovable scoundrel that Han Solo was.
Nutty - Mar 25, 2005 10:13:55 am PST #7132 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
A lovable scoundrel with a GIGANTIC PSYCHOLOGICAL COMPLEX, perhaps. Dude left out that part.
Also? He has not been that effective an offensive force, neither with aimed weapons nor with his paws.
Scrappy - Mar 25, 2005 10:18:08 am PST #7133 of 10000
Life moves pretty fast. You don't stop and look around once in a while, you could miss it.
Good kisser, though.
And, really, how much armed protection does one need?
Nutty - Mar 25, 2005 10:21:23 am PST #7134 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
I hope, someday, when someone shoots me (a nonmoving target) at 5 feet range, with no distractions and all the time in the world to aim, he actually manages to kill me when he fires. I think, in the annals of crappy shooting, Sawyer is topped only by that guy in the Olympics who shot a bullseye in the wrong fricken target, and lost the gold medal thereby.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 25, 2005 11:38:40 am PST #7135 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
Eh, even if firing conditions are perfect bullets sometimes do funny things and end up being less lethal than expected. I've heard of a point blank head shot where the bullet skidded along the skull underneath the scalp without penetrating, and skipped loose by making an exit wound at the back of the guy's head. Looked like it had done the trick (especially considering how superficial head wounds bleed) but the victim got away with cosmetic damage (and, I assume, a concussion).
Admittedly, feeding the marshall the gun barrell would have made things certain short of supernatural intervention, but I can see why Sawyer wouldn't have been up to that task.
Nutty - Mar 25, 2005 11:48:04 am PST #7136 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
bullets sometimes do funny things
This is true. However, Sawyer's failure wasn't a freak accident; he shot the guy in the torso, hit him, and failed to hit anything vital enough to kill him quickly, which was the whole point of shooting him in the first place. For this, House Slytherin gets minus eleventy million points.
§ ita § - Mar 25, 2005 11:56:53 am PST #7137 of 10000
Well not canonically, no, but this is transformative fiction.
Sawyer's patently not a killer¹, though. Armchair assassins and overthinkers may know where to aim, but most other people who haven't killed or been trained to do so stand a good chance of not hitting the right bits.
I think I'd know where to shoot, but my knowledge of how long it takes a person to die from this or from that is sorely tainted by whether it's a good guy or a bad guy that's been hit, and how high their name is in the credits.
¹: He's obviously killed, so no need to get semantic. He's neither a pro nor an enthusiastic amateur.
Matt the Bruins fan - Mar 25, 2005 12:01:19 pm PST #7138 of 10000
"I remember when they eventually introduced that drug kingpin who murdered people and smuggled drugs inside snakes and I was like 'Finally. A normal person.'” —RahvinDragand
With my luck, if I were ever in that situation I'd go for a no contest shot like into an eye socket and end up getting pegged myself by a riccochet.
Theodosia - Mar 25, 2005 12:06:25 pm PST #7139 of 10000
'we all walk this earth feeling we are frauds. The trick is to be grateful and hope the caper doesn't end any time soon"
Sawyer probably missed because he aimed, squeezed his eyes tight shut and then pulled the trigger.