22 October 2012

Hunted S01E01 (BBC/Cinemax, 2012)

Three questions popped into my head in the first five minutes:

1.  Why does the bad guy take our heroine all the way into his evil lair?  They were en route to dinner or something so... couldn't she have just waited in the car?

2.  Why does film and television insist on showing that snipers can shoot distant things without resting the rifle on something?

3.  If you're a henchman in your boss's evil lair and you see your meal-ticket - in this case, a presumed kidnap victim -  being accompanied by a strange woman walking in a hurry, wouldn't you just shoot first and ask questions later?

(It's possible that:  1. our heroine and bad guy have been in a relationship a while and either (a) she can be trusted to come into the evil lair or (b) she can't be trusted with the driver; 2. snipers who make headshots at impressive distances are all descended from Lee Harvey Oswald; and 3. see 1. (a) preceding.)

Let's see how bored I get with my other viewing.

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