ProfParanoia wrote:@Nyarl:
~She heard gunmen, it's why she left the trunk. She's banking their stupid.
She's just deciding that there's a chance she do more than call the police from the trunk. (Taking the time to call the police, BTW, is already less reckless than most characters with hero complexes would do in that situation in most fiction. But, Ran sucks as a character, so no credit for her!)
~When you're apparently a star sniper, the shock shouldn't last the time it took her to reach Ai and not being able to shoot her through that whole sequence is stupid.
It doesn't need to last that long, it only needs to last long enough for Ran to react to what she sees while on top of the car. Unless the sniper can predict what she's going to do once she's moving (changing Z axis directions while moving down the car) it becomes very hard to hit her. Once Ran stops, Vermouth starts protecting her. It's not at all hard to suspend disbelief that a "star sniper" (whose favorite gun was a hyping shotgun, btw, not a rifle) would miss two shots in that situation.
~"Nitpicking" is a comment you only add because you're lacking a real one. The thread is half "least favorite scenes" so nitpicking is kinda the point. And also, this means complaining about the anime version is valid too.
The anime adaptation played up the gun play in a pretty bad way. I have no problem with complaints about that.
~Wasting more time so you can plan a super jump? Right nothing wrong there. Also if she had the "situational awareness" then she should have known which direction was safe.
The situational awareness comes from the unobstructed view from the top of the car, not the very limited view she'd have from the trunk. If there's a gunman behind the car, popping the trunk and staying there to look around really would have been pointlessly suicidal.
~I think it's been well established their reactions are too inappropriate to gauge how fast she was moving.
Not sure what you mean here. If you mean we can't assume she was moving slowly or quickly just from the reaction shots in the manga, I agree. If you mean the reactions prove Ran was moving slowly, I disagree. It doesn't take long to sub-vocalize sentence fragments.
~Because her and a little girl could be killed, but hey as long as it looks cool... or doesn't.
If Ran does nothing more than wait for the police, she risks someone dying, too. Ran thought the chance she could help outweighed the risk to herself. So what? Shin'ichi doesn't always wait for guaranteed success before acting, he repeatedly does "reckless" hero things, some times outright stupid things, like gloating to culprits who are able to attack him. Bad writing?
~Well given how close everyone was "with emotion" and that Verm too be so invested in them to see the shot girl move from one side to another (but you could give that to warning shots) should be enough and even then keeping the girl from getting away doesn't much help her from not being dead.
It does if the police do scare them off before they can drag her body off of the little girl. Slim chance, I'd agree, but a chance nonetheless.
~Except it isn't, since that was the only case of me mentioning him and that was just that more time should have been used for this which is the fault of several people, but you couldn't think of anything else to say so...
Yeah, calling it a "new level of stupid" was just saying "it could have been executed better".
there's so many gunshot of Irish but Conan is still Alive...
