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Originally Posted by gmw
Because the gun is just a random one grabbed off the people on the destroyer. (This was just an idea I was exploring, an edit to an existing scene, in the hope of explaining another part of the book. It's not that important to the story, just a detail I wanted to cover. It's all looking a bit iffy, so I may decide to scrap the idea and find another way of achieving what I want.)
ETA: Isn't it amazing how much time you can spend on something that would probably only be a few lines in the book. But if you screw it up then you drop the the reader out of the story possibly destroying pages of effort.
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I understand Hollywood has similar problems. There are people whose whole job is to make sure things are as consistent as possible. For example if the hero is smoking and he's just lit a cigarette (far shot) it's their job to make sure that the cigarette isn't 3/4ths burned away (in the close up) a few seconds later. Of course errors do still crop up. The old blind man with the golden idol in "The Ten Commandments" is a classic screw up. He's wearing a Timex wristwatch!
