The Walking Dead 2.13 - Besides the Dying Fire (season finale - SPOILERS)

[Remus Lupin]

He was in a few scenes, and he was the subject of the conversation between Maggie and her sister. She was complaining that she felt stuck with Jimmy because they just happened to be dating when the zombpocalypse took place. I guess she doesn't need to worry about that any more.

 

[Kzach]

On the 'master marksman' thing, I thought they showed Glen missing a few times. It was only Andrea who had gone from "I can't hit the side of a barn!" to "I'm a Gun-Ninja! Yo!" in a week or so. I expect Hershel and Rick and Daryl to be good shots but then even an excellent shot, someone who has trained for years, is not going to be hitting head shots at those ranges, whilst running and dodging zombies so the whole marksman thing is a bit of a stretch.

 

[Oryan77]

I know it may sound silly, but from a directing perspective, showing people missing their shots over & over in a TV show is actually going to take away air time from the show itself. Every second matters in film & especially TV when you have to fit it in a 30 minute, 1 hour, 1.5 hour, etc, etc, time frame.

It will also require extra filming and camera work. Meaning, it uses up time & money just to be more realistic when eventually, they are going to kill the zombie anyway. Showing missed shots will require a few extra camera changes and special FX.

It's just easier to show the kill shot immediately rather than showing, "miss, miss, hit....miss, miss, miss, hit....miss, hit.....miss, miss, miss, hit...".

The marksman thing doesn't bother me. It's really only good to show a missed shot in film when it will build suspense for that scene.

 

[Fast Learner]

I know it may sound silly, but from a directing perspective, showing people missing their shots over & over in a TV show is actually going to take away air time from the show itself. Every second matters in film & especially TV when you have to fit it in a 30 minute, 1 hour, 1.5 hour, etc, etc, time frame.

Good point. It did break my willing suspension of disbelief, but it's a tough problem to solve in the medium.

 

[Dannyalcatraz]

There are ways to do it, though.

For instance, misses don't have to be complete misses- some could have been something other than head shots. To my (flawed, human) memory, it seemed as if every shot Glen made across the roof of the bouncing Hyundai SUV was A perfect head shot.

They actually did use one other technique, in all fairness: we didn't see the result of every shot Herschel made.

And besides...we see missed shots all the time in TV. Look at any shoot out in a cop show or western. Movies aren't the only productions with a big squib budget.

 

[Rabulias]

Well at least she didn't look like she carried a katana around..

Maybe you're being sarcastic, but Michonne did have a katana in her brief scene... In fact she used it to save Andrea.

 

[Oryan77]

There are ways to do it, though.

For instance, misses don't have to be complete misses- some could have been something other than head shots.

If the zombie doesn't need to be killed (i.e., the living are just trying to flee), then a shoulder hit or something would help with the "perfect marksman" problem.

But if they need the zombie to die (i.e., it is about to bite someone), then you still need to show a head shot. So for every shoulder hit or complete miss, that is extra seconds and money being used up to build up to the eventual head shot.

Still, they seem to show a lot of head shots when there isn't a reason for the hit to be a head shot. Like when they are just driving away in a car and shooting at zombies as they pass by. I just mentioned this for people that don't think about production issues when they watch a film. Maybe it would help the show be less annoying to them.

 

[Krug]

Maybe you're being sarcastic, but Michonne did have a katana in her brief scene... In fact she used it to save Andrea.

I thought it was just a parang or big knife, but can't say I got a good look.
-shrug-

 

[Richards]

I loved how Lori flinched away from Rick after he told her about killing Shane. She might as well have said, "How dare you kill my boyfriend who was plotting your murder!"

Lori has to go. I'm hoping she's next on the zombie appetizer plate.

Johnathan

 

[Fast Learner]

In her semi-defense -- and mind you, she has been nastily duplicitous, so I dislike her character, too -- Rick had just told her "I killed the father of the baby in your womb." No matter how the situation came to be (almost), those are rarely words anyone would want to hear.