Credit Where Credit Is Due
A while back, I grumbled about a scene in Hell on Wheels where they show someone using a transit improperly, and, more to the point, show a view through what appears to be a rifle scope rather than something with stadia hairs when they switched to the “through the scope” view. Well, I recently saw an episode of Deadwood where the appear to gotten it right, showing a scope view with proper surveying hairs rather than crosshairs. So good on you, Deadwood. I’ll just point out that Deadwood won a whole bunch of Emmys, much as I pointed out before that Mad Men, a show with obsessive attention to historical detail, has also won a bunch of stuff. I think we can safely conclude that careful placation of technically-minded nerds pretty much inevitably results in awards.