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Great story and Eddie Redmayne is just a fantastic pick for this role, but can people who make these kinds of shows please get military or at least hobby shooter counsel? This is how the hit on the German candidate Fest would have went down if it was plausible; He would need a rangefinder to site his scope in at an exact distance on another target so the guards wouldn't be alerted when a 12.7mm bullet hit the building above. He could also sight in at 1000 meters or 100 meters then adjust, or adjust with his mil dots, the little vertical lines. Second, a shot like that could only take place if the candidate was standing still in one position for the entire like 4 seconds it took the bullet to fly the distance. There is no way to anticipate exactly where a moving target would be seconds later and an assassin wouldn't take the risk. Third, he would not aim for the head, it would be impossible for a human to hit a moving head at that distance, there are too many variables. The torso would be the target. Fourth, a 12.7mm x 108mm round would nearly cut a torso in half. If it hit a head there would no longer be a head.

Wow, this show is unbelievably good all the way around, I haven't enjoyed something so thoroughly since the first season of Game of Thrones. The acting is very convincing, the camera work is good, the storyline feels realistic, and there is no obvious, gratuitous propaganda thrown in. It really captures the essence of what living under an empire with complete dictatorial control must be like and shows that a rebellion is a series of hard, amoral choices by imperfect characters taking life-ending risks. It also makes me think about how for example the Bolsheviks must have viewed the Romanovs and how they must have viewed themselves. They thought the rebellion was a just cause but it ended up being the worst thing that ever happened to Russia, ushering in tragedy that is still being played out today. It also makes you think about what strategies the Republic would use to control its worlds after it was old, content, and used to power. Would it really be that much different than the Empire? Power always corrupts...