User blog comment:IamJakuhoRaikoben/Chapter 500: Fire and Ice, Review./@comment-130.105.140.154-20160906082623/@comment-7418318-20160906090305

I never quite agreed with Checkov on that matter.

Sure if the gun is shown it needs to serve some purpose, but it doesn't need to be the most literal purpose as that quote suggests.

The gun could for example be used as a blunt weapon to blugeon someone, or it could be the evidence that ultimately get's the murderer caught, or a ton of other things.

To just have the gun fired at some point is the very thing that we've been criticising FT for on numerous occasions: predictable. I'd much rather have a "Oh I didn't expect that" moment than having the obvious happen, or better yet "I didn't expect that, but looking back now all those little things make sense"... but that's for deeper and less light hearted, short-term fun series than FT.