Here's what I thought was wrong with the show.
-I didn't learn a whole lot other than Colt is an old company, ARs must be their only product, and everyone has a lot of esprit-de-corps. At least the three people on camera said they did.
-I did not like the way the historican, Haynes, kept emphasizing that Colt invented the revolver. He may have been the first to put a revolving pistol into common production, but "revolvers" go much further back in history.
-And too much time was spent about the pistol history. The show was exclusively about AR production.
-Camera work was poor and many times out of focus. If you're going to show close ups of something, either the subject or the camera needs to be mounted on something, preferably both.
-Lighting was poorly done, if at all, other than a key light on the speaker.
-Only a couple of people were allowed to speak on camera. Contorno, Haynes and Reese. (Maybe another one or two management types. Obviously they didn't make an impression.) I'd love to hear from some of the workers on the line. Especially the proof tester. I think he had something to say.
-The show glossed over too much. It's like they spent all the time on barrel making and ran out of time to show anything else. (Then the barrel goes to final assembly and voila, we have a finished AR. Let's go to Maggie to sell us the different models.)
-The show allowed terms to be introduced without explaining them. What is "gun drilling" (or whatever the word was)?
-I'd liked to have seen more assembly explanation. I noticed a machine is used, probably for consistency, to screw the barrel onto the upper. But I also notice a lady in the back ground using a 18" long, hand wrench. They also drive the takedown pins in with a hammer. Are they that tough or do the fingers just get tired after 100+ assemblies in a day? I'd love to see their tricks and tools for putting in the forward takedown pin detent. And do they use a machine for the gas tube drift pin in the gas block? Heck we don't even know if they use piston or DI? And absolutely nothing about the bolt or BCG. In one of the few pictures of the BCG someone was spreading some gunk on it. Special super secret lube?
-Maggie at the range was nice, though I'd like to see some groupings or "results" of her shooting, maybe even some competition footage to establish cred would have been nice. I know she's a "name" in 3G, call me doubting Thomas. Not all viewers follow three gun.
(Side note: I disagree with her premise that since her arms are puny she need a light weight gun. I think a medium weight gun would help her with recoil. And a personal nit. I see the pros do it so I'm in the minority, but I don't like using the magazine as a gun rest. Whenever there's a malfunction one of the first things people will suspect is the magazine. On the plus side, it isn't going to fall out if you're resting the gun on it.)
-But perhaps the biggest problem with this show is the disemboweled host. One of the strong attractions to SG and SUSA are the hosts. Michael and Jim provide a comforting character with which the audience channels through. As Michael or Jim tour a facility they're really, the audience. It becomes like you're actually there. In this show, the camera was there and we were being lectured about the facility. Hosts also provide continuity not only through a show, but from show to show. They're the glue, no, the gunk, no, the mucilage, ah wait, the BINDER that holds the segments, the pigments so to speak, of the show together.
And that's what I have to say about that.
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