Re silence in immediate aftermath of bomb:
As pps have said, combination of people in shock not responding vocally immediately and peoples hearing temporarily (or sometimes long term/permanently) affected as a result.
I've known army people describe it and the silence freaks them more than the noise, such that some thereafter hate silence EVER and end up sleeping with tv/music on all the time.
"They are going to try to pin Julia's murder on Dave as a lone wolf killer" that's essentially the plot of Arlington rd, a victim set up as the perpetrator while the true perpetrators get away Scot free. The difference here being it'd be the supposed and SHOULD be good guys that are guilty.
We're discussing a work of fiction here, but anyone who thinks govt, security services etc
A always competently do their job properly
B never allow certain events to occur, certain political figures to be attacked/killed for their own objectives
C never allow atrocities to occur to guide politics
D never allow atrocities to occur for reasons of 'greater good' outcomes
E never collude with enemies
Are naive at best.
Dorynow - no ballistics don't work that way. It's not just type of gun but individual guns. Things that cause the marks on bullets that allow differentiation are down to variations in -
The barrel - which are affected by how and when cleaned, how often, age of gun, storage environment inc temperature,
The bullets - design, materials, age, storage environment again,
The user - quirks in cleaning technique, bullet loading technique, shooting technique (also partly affected by their physicality - height, weight etc), user leaving trace elements on gun and bullets.
Among other things.
Raisedbyguineapigs - how many times? The Death Star is a large space station that is also the ultimate weapon. The weaponry works by energy disruption, basically energy focussed on a target essentially causing a massive earthquake or series of earthquakes.
I think in this case it is a joking ref to no 10
PTSD has had many names over the years but I suspect the pathology has differed little.
Fermats - if you mean queen Elizabeth I'm not surprised! It's ridiculously big and impossible to find your way round!
Telly shite tonight, May rewatch these.
- each time we watch on catch up I believe counts toward ratings.
"The Home Secretary is NOT the target - The Bodyguard is!
Discuss......" Interesting...
HIS train targeted
HIS children's school targeted
Car HE was travelling in targeted (and driver hit first - maybe they thought he was driving? Or that the bullet would go through driver into Dave)
Event HE was primary security at targeted - they could have thought he'd be much nearer to home sec than he was as ppo.
We don't know what he did in army, don't know his full background...
Hmm...I'd hold fire on lauding it as a feminist masterpiece just yet. There's still too much potential for all the female characters to turn out to be 'baddies', corrupted by their own ambition and too quick to belittle and dismiss the male characters.
Although I like mercurio's comment that art needn't simply reflect reality but can indeed influence it.