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Oct. 7th, 2009 10:45 amTV Commentary:
Dollhouse- An article on one of the TV gossip sites I peruse reminded me of a comment I forgot to make about last week's ep. ( spoiler cut )
NCIS: Los Angeles- Seriously, what's up with Linda Hunt and the wardrobe aspect of the show? Like other than undercover ops, why would NCIS have any say in what exactly their agents should wear? In any case, the ep did have me curious about whether there is any animosity between true fighter jocks and Predator/Reaper pilots. Well, animosity is a strong word. But I can see a fighter pilot thinking of a UAV pilot as a gamer geek trying to run with the big boys. I mean, while the groundpounders do think the pilots already have it better, they still have to deal with the physical stresses of actual flight, and the danger of getting shot down, while the UAV pilot is chilling in a safe place, and nothing happens to him if the drone gets shot down.
Actually, another thing I'd be curious about is, I'm assuming since they're sitting at a console flying the drone like it was a video game, there's no 20/20 vision restriction, or other certain physical restrictions. So would the job appeal to people who wanted to be pilots who washed out on those things but were otherwise fine? It is flying, but its not really flying, and I wanna say those who do want to be fighter pilots, its less about wanting to blow up stuff and more about the feeling of zooming around in the air. You can't get the feeling of speed and those g-forces against you from a computer screen.
Dollhouse- An article on one of the TV gossip sites I peruse reminded me of a comment I forgot to make about last week's ep. ( spoiler cut )
NCIS: Los Angeles- Seriously, what's up with Linda Hunt and the wardrobe aspect of the show? Like other than undercover ops, why would NCIS have any say in what exactly their agents should wear? In any case, the ep did have me curious about whether there is any animosity between true fighter jocks and Predator/Reaper pilots. Well, animosity is a strong word. But I can see a fighter pilot thinking of a UAV pilot as a gamer geek trying to run with the big boys. I mean, while the groundpounders do think the pilots already have it better, they still have to deal with the physical stresses of actual flight, and the danger of getting shot down, while the UAV pilot is chilling in a safe place, and nothing happens to him if the drone gets shot down.
Actually, another thing I'd be curious about is, I'm assuming since they're sitting at a console flying the drone like it was a video game, there's no 20/20 vision restriction, or other certain physical restrictions. So would the job appeal to people who wanted to be pilots who washed out on those things but were otherwise fine? It is flying, but its not really flying, and I wanna say those who do want to be fighter pilots, its less about wanting to blow up stuff and more about the feeling of zooming around in the air. You can't get the feeling of speed and those g-forces against you from a computer screen.
