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lifeonqueen) wrote2010-02-03 06:58 pm
lifeonqueen) wrote2010-02-03 06:58 pm
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Hump This
Dear STARGATE fanfic that is pissing me off today:
1) An FN P-90 weighs six pounds - 6 - fully loaded (actually about two pounds lighter than the MP5-A5; 3-4 lbs lighter than a standard M-16 and about half the length) - which would be a negligible weight suspended from the four-point sling SG personnel wear. If Carter can carry Teyla, the added weight of the P-90 won't be a problem (hence why real-world police & special operations forces like the gun).
2) This information is available on Wikipedia's P-90 page; it's literally less than 10 seconds work (including load times) to find out the weapon's dimensions. Research - think about doing some. Speaking of which...
3) Carter spent more than 10 years as an SG operator, more often under fire than not. Name one time (in 200+ episodes) she abandoned her weapon while retreating under fire (given that she wears it strapped to her chest).
4) Carter is left caring for a wounded teammate in the middle of a wraith attack and you have her abandon her weapon and field pack - are you kidding me?
Is Carter?
5) This is where I stoppedcaring reading. Carter is a career military officer, who has more than a decade of combat experience (which would have made her, IRL, one of the most experienced combat veterans in the US military). She is an expert marksman. And because Carter needs to have a less-lethal option, she carries a zat as her personal sidearm. Throwing down with a Wraith in a knife fight when she is fully armed with her P-90 and zat is not cool, it's stupid. Carter would know better* - so should people writing her.
Given her experience, do you think maybe Carter would keep her field pack handy in case she needed to provide first aid, drinking water, extra ammunition, blankets, food - all those things that you need when you suddenly find yourself trapped off-world with injured personnel and Wraith on your ass. So you've either made Carter act the fool by dumping survival gear or by going off-planet with a bunch of useless junk in her field pack. Either way, your fic just jumped the character selachii because Carter would know better (or Amanda Tapping would God-damn well want an explaination why Carter didn't).
Feh.
*A) Never bring a knife to a gunfight. B) Never let your opponent grab you if you can avoid it - jumping on a Wraith's back to stab him in the neck (not how you fight with a knife, btw) definitely puts you in grabby-hands territory.
1) An FN P-90 weighs six pounds - 6 - fully loaded (actually about two pounds lighter than the MP5-A5; 3-4 lbs lighter than a standard M-16 and about half the length) - which would be a negligible weight suspended from the four-point sling SG personnel wear. If Carter can carry Teyla, the added weight of the P-90 won't be a problem (hence why real-world police & special operations forces like the gun).
2) This information is available on Wikipedia's P-90 page; it's literally less than 10 seconds work (including load times) to find out the weapon's dimensions. Research - think about doing some. Speaking of which...
3) Carter spent more than 10 years as an SG operator, more often under fire than not. Name one time (in 200+ episodes) she abandoned her weapon while retreating under fire (given that she wears it strapped to her chest).
4) Carter is left caring for a wounded teammate in the middle of a wraith attack and you have her abandon her weapon and field pack - are you kidding me?
Is Carter?
5) This is where I stopped
Given her experience, do you think maybe Carter would keep her field pack handy in case she needed to provide first aid, drinking water, extra ammunition, blankets, food - all those things that you need when you suddenly find yourself trapped off-world with injured personnel and Wraith on your ass. So you've either made Carter act the fool by dumping survival gear or by going off-planet with a bunch of useless junk in her field pack. Either way, your fic just jumped the character selachii because Carter would know better (or Amanda Tapping would God-damn well want an explaination why Carter didn't).
Feh.
*A) Never bring a knife to a gunfight. B) Never let your opponent grab you if you can avoid it - jumping on a Wraith's back to stab him in the neck (not how you fight with a knife, btw) definitely puts you in grabby-hands territory.