TV Effects
Published by Ninth Stage May 23rd, 2006 in Culture, Heh!, Media.Peripherally watched “House” tonight. House gets shot, the rest of the episode is some fever dream. At the end some guy drops a bullet, just the projectile, from his hand. A pristine spire point bullet sans engraving marks from the rifling, presumably fired from the handgun shown earlier in the show hits the floor and sounds a lot like a piece of spent brass. I’m so glad the newsrooms are accurate.
I saw that episode too.
They flashed the gun by so quick I really couldn’t make it out. Then they later showed it pointed at the camera and it had a distinctly square Glock profile, perhaps a .40 cal 22/23? Dunno.
The bullet had me laughing on the floor. Sheez, hollyweird.
Heh, me too. A sort of laughing WTF?
Maybe it was an FN Five-seveN Somehow I had an itch that that is what it was at the beginning of the show, maybe they showed a projectile near the time of the shooting? Anyway it would be a very odd choice of pistol and more so where there was no description or discussion of the weapon - And, in the end, it is an even more odd pistol that leaves a bullet untouched, ready for reloading and HOLLOW.