I also don't understand the point of the Jack gets married backstory.
Isn't it obvious? He was planning on saving Boone in order to marry him.
Oh dear. I think the slashers have gotten to me.
Well, we may not have parted on the best of terms. I realize certain words were exchanged. Also, certain... bullets. But that's air through the engine. It's past. We're business people.
Mal ,'Serenity'
Lost: OMGWTF POLAR BEAR
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DCJensen - Apr 07, 2005 5:30:51 am PDT #7470 of 10000
All is well that ends in pizza.
DCJensen - Apr 07, 2005 5:33:50 am PDT #7471 of 10000
All is well that ends in pizza.
Were we the only ones to yell "Dave! MOOOOOOOO" at the screen during that first tying the bow tie scene?
The ghosts of Titus live on.
Nutty - Apr 07, 2005 5:35:18 am PDT #7472 of 10000
"Mister Spock is on his fanny, sir. Reports heavy damage."
Historically, when you don't have anesthesia, you do amputations as quickly as possible because otherwise the patient goes into shock and dies. Saws rather than guillotines were the usual method, but Jack didn't have a saw.
But, with a scalpel, can't you be quick? Especially if you're cutting around the bones at a joint rather than through -- no need for a saw.
Also, Boone was already in shock (and already dying, for that matter) -- what's a little more shock to a man with a collapsed lung?
DCJensen - Apr 07, 2005 5:42:14 am PDT #7473 of 10000
All is well that ends in pizza.
If Jack even had a scalpel sharp enough, it's still like cutting into meat with insew and nerves and having to deal with stoppping in the middle to somehow sever the bones.
The cargo door had the mass to sever the leg and bone in one clean swipe.
Note that Jack dismissed the axe. That was because it was too blunt to do the job cleanly. Maybe a sharpened axe, but they have no way to sharpen it quickly and I'm not sure it has the mass to do it right.
DCJensen - Apr 07, 2005 5:43:57 am PDT #7474 of 10000
All is well that ends in pizza.
Now a nice Excalibraxe...
-t - Apr 07, 2005 5:46:35 am PDT #7475 of 10000
I am a woman of various inclinations and only some of the time are they to burn everything down in frustration
DH asked me if I'd rather be needing medical care on the Lost island or in Deadwood. I went with Deadwood, because at least there's laudanum.
It did not occur to me that the cargo door was sharpened, I figured they were going for amputation by crushing and that seemed like a really bad idea. They did get a pretty clean cut through the test log somehow, though.
tavella - Apr 07, 2005 5:54:06 am PDT #7476 of 10000
There is considerable overlap between the intelligence of the smartest bears and the dumbest tourists.
Note that Jack dismissed the axe. That was because it was too blunt to do the job cleanly. Maybe a sharpened axe, but they have no way to sharpen it quickly and I'm not sure it has the mass to do it right.
I think it was less that than it couldn't cut through a leg in a single blow, it just wasn't big enough. Amputating a hand maybe, but with a leg it'd take 3-4 blows, maybe more, and then you'd have this hideous ragged wound that you probably couldn't stop bleeding. Guillotine = one single clean severing.
Plus, well... aiming an axe that precisely not that easy.
Jessica - Apr 07, 2005 5:54:47 am PDT #7477 of 10000
And then Ortus came and said "It's Ortin' time" and they all Orted off into the sunset
If they can't sharpen the axe, how'd they sharpen the cargo hold door?
DCJensen - Apr 07, 2005 6:00:10 am PDT #7478 of 10000
All is well that ends in pizza.
I was thinking the cargo hold door edge is very narrow, and the weight of the door itself would carry it through the entire leg.
DCJensen - Apr 07, 2005 6:02:27 am PDT #7479 of 10000
All is well that ends in pizza.
Maybe a sharpened axe, but they have no way to sharpen it quickly and I'm not sure it has the mass to do it right.
I think it was less that than it couldn't cut through a leg in a single blow, it just wasn't big enough.
Right. Hence my note of it's mass. Door had the mass to do it. Or at least more likely.