The night is young and so am I
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geebsTV commentary:
24- You know, even though he's a bad guy, ex-prez Logan is prolly one of the best characters this show has ever had. Gregory Itzin just does a great job of making Logan this kinda self-serving, self-important douchey a-hole, pulling off toeing the line between a legitimately evil threat and a pathetic bastard. Heh, he also does "pants-crappin" quite well, particularly during this week's ep where Jack dons the full body armor complete with "Army of Two" style mask, all one-man army going after Logan.
Speaking of, here's my 24-firearms complaint of the week. Okay, so in the above link, we see Jack starts off his ambush using aM4-style carbine a Colt M933 (From the close ups, it looks like its got the really short barrel, not the 14.5 inch one found on the M4), then he transitions to a pistol, then when he gets to the limo, he switches to the "standalone version" of the M26 MASS. (Which Justin Hammer incorrectly refers to as an "M24 Shotgun" in Iron Man 2 when he's showing Rhodey various weapons he can put on the War Machine suit)
Now, the M26 was originally created as an underbarrel accessory for the M4 carbine (as seen in the opening scene of "The One", where the SWAT guys were armed with M4s sporting underbarrel M26s. Trivia for the day: In the other universe, they're armed with H-K G36s. Do I focus way too much on the guns used in TVs and Movies?). The advantages it had over the Knight's Master Key "S" (which was just a cut down Remington 870) were the detachable box magazine (so one can quickly transition from breaching rounds to other shotgun loads), and the large handle was easier to cycle then the pump action of the 870. So that being said, instead of Jack using an M4 with the M26 mounted under so he can carry one weapon instead of two, he has both the cut-down AR, and the standalone version of the m26.
I mean, really, why would you carry 2 things when you can have a single combo weapon? I was thinking maybe for concealability. Because both weapons separately are slightly more concealable (not that they are all that concealable) than the AR/shotgun combo, but given Jack was walking around in full body armor, I don't think he was trying to hide anything!
24- You know, even though he's a bad guy, ex-prez Logan is prolly one of the best characters this show has ever had. Gregory Itzin just does a great job of making Logan this kinda self-serving, self-important douchey a-hole, pulling off toeing the line between a legitimately evil threat and a pathetic bastard. Heh, he also does "pants-crappin" quite well, particularly during this week's ep where Jack dons the full body armor complete with "Army of Two" style mask, all one-man army going after Logan.
Speaking of, here's my 24-firearms complaint of the week. Okay, so in the above link, we see Jack starts off his ambush using a
Now, the M26 was originally created as an underbarrel accessory for the M4 carbine (as seen in the opening scene of "The One", where the SWAT guys were armed with M4s sporting underbarrel M26s. Trivia for the day: In the other universe, they're armed with H-K G36s. Do I focus way too much on the guns used in TVs and Movies?). The advantages it had over the Knight's Master Key "S" (which was just a cut down Remington 870) were the detachable box magazine (so one can quickly transition from breaching rounds to other shotgun loads), and the large handle was easier to cycle then the pump action of the 870. So that being said, instead of Jack using an M4 with the M26 mounted under so he can carry one weapon instead of two, he has both the cut-down AR, and the standalone version of the m26.
I mean, really, why would you carry 2 things when you can have a single combo weapon? I was thinking maybe for concealability. Because both weapons separately are slightly more concealable (not that they are all that concealable) than the AR/shotgun combo, but given Jack was walking around in full body armor, I don't think he was trying to hide anything!
