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cactuswatcher) wrote2013-10-08 08:50 am
cactuswatcher) wrote2013-10-08 08:50 am
Monday TV
I wish the story on Bones last night had run years ago. I really didn't like that plot line. I wonder if it's a sign they've decided this is the last year for the show?
The twist at the end of Castle last night wasn't exactly a shock. Big question for next week - Will Rick get his deposit back?
Pop quiz on Sleepy Hollow
1. Name at least two historical inaccuracies in the episode about Hessians soldiers.
2. What parts did the torture device consist of?
3. How do we know that Crane and Abbie are *the* witnesses?
4. How much like a Buffy or Angel episode did the climax look?
5. What do you want to bet, that the late Sheriff was actually Abbie and Jenny's father?
Answers.
1. Hessian soldiers didn't wear the classic red coats. They fought in their own units under their own officers with their own flags and uniforms. During the Revolutionary War the average Hessian soldier wasn't necessarily pro-British (Crane said something to the effect they were loyal to the Crown). The Hessians units were hated, individual soldiers not so much. Colonists offered bounties of free land to Hessians willing to desert. Most didn't and went back home after the war. About 5000 settled down in North America both in the States and in Canada.
2. The handle was a tap wrench, a device to hold a tap securely. The sort of tap that would fit in the one last night is used to cut treads inside a piece of metal (or hard plastic). The tap wrench holds the tap and gives some leverage to make it possible to turn the tap as it cuts its own way into the work. (An indentation on the top of the wrench allows the wrench to be held loosely in place by a center, a piece of metal pointed like a pencil. This keeps the tap from going in the hole crooked, which often results in the tap breaking in the work piece, which in turn can ruin the work piece.) The other part was a straight-fluted metal-working reamer. It's used to slightly enlarge existing holes. Drill bits usually leave a rough surface in a hole, and the hole size and shape can vary from hole to hole. The reamer cleans up the irregularities, and makes the holes a consistent size. Its use as a torture device is questionable because straight-fluted reamers including the one shown last night have blunt tips incapable of cutting or tearing, and sides which aren't likely to cut somebody even with a good deal of effort. This problem is compounded by the use of the tap wrench as a holder. Taps have a square end that is held securely in the four sided chuck (ie holder) of the wrench. The reamer has a round end that would constantly slip in the square jaws of the tap wrench. Practically anything in the tool box, including a tap, would be more effective to hurt somebody than a straight fluted reamer. Getting a reamer poked up your nose wouldn't be pleasant, but a pencil or pen would be worse. In fact it would be more effective just to whap the guy on the head with the tap wrench.
3. We don't. It's Crane's assumption. The witnesses could be anybody; Abbie and Jenny, Jenny and Crane, Abbie's new boss and a hooker from Sleepy Hollow's historic red-light district, anybody.
4. A lot.
5. If you're like me not much, but you never know.
The twist at the end of Castle last night wasn't exactly a shock. Big question for next week - Will Rick get his deposit back?
Pop quiz on Sleepy Hollow
1. Name at least two historical inaccuracies in the episode about Hessians soldiers.
2. What parts did the torture device consist of?
3. How do we know that Crane and Abbie are *the* witnesses?
4. How much like a Buffy or Angel episode did the climax look?
5. What do you want to bet, that the late Sheriff was actually Abbie and Jenny's father?
Answers.
1. Hessian soldiers didn't wear the classic red coats. They fought in their own units under their own officers with their own flags and uniforms. During the Revolutionary War the average Hessian soldier wasn't necessarily pro-British (Crane said something to the effect they were loyal to the Crown). The Hessians units were hated, individual soldiers not so much. Colonists offered bounties of free land to Hessians willing to desert. Most didn't and went back home after the war. About 5000 settled down in North America both in the States and in Canada.
2. The handle was a tap wrench, a device to hold a tap securely. The sort of tap that would fit in the one last night is used to cut treads inside a piece of metal (or hard plastic). The tap wrench holds the tap and gives some leverage to make it possible to turn the tap as it cuts its own way into the work. (An indentation on the top of the wrench allows the wrench to be held loosely in place by a center, a piece of metal pointed like a pencil. This keeps the tap from going in the hole crooked, which often results in the tap breaking in the work piece, which in turn can ruin the work piece.) The other part was a straight-fluted metal-working reamer. It's used to slightly enlarge existing holes. Drill bits usually leave a rough surface in a hole, and the hole size and shape can vary from hole to hole. The reamer cleans up the irregularities, and makes the holes a consistent size. Its use as a torture device is questionable because straight-fluted reamers including the one shown last night have blunt tips incapable of cutting or tearing, and sides which aren't likely to cut somebody even with a good deal of effort. This problem is compounded by the use of the tap wrench as a holder. Taps have a square end that is held securely in the four sided chuck (ie holder) of the wrench. The reamer has a round end that would constantly slip in the square jaws of the tap wrench. Practically anything in the tool box, including a tap, would be more effective to hurt somebody than a straight fluted reamer. Getting a reamer poked up your nose wouldn't be pleasant, but a pencil or pen would be worse. In fact it would be more effective just to whap the guy on the head with the tap wrench.
3. We don't. It's Crane's assumption. The witnesses could be anybody; Abbie and Jenny, Jenny and Crane, Abbie's new boss and a hooker from Sleepy Hollow's historic red-light district, anybody.
4. A lot.
5. If you're like me not much, but you never know.
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#5. I think it's a good bet, but who knows where this show is going. I do believe though that if you're trying to keep your mentoring relationship with someone secret maybe don't have pictures of the two of you together all over your cabin.