Just going to gloss right over the manual cocking sound of a revolver being applied to semi-auto pistols, but you catch the drift.
But we’d see that round that was chambered a few minutes ago fly out. And then again when they’re seconds away from a fire fight. Even more egregious is when they show the same weapon being cocked when they’re about to start fighting. And it is possible that they did chamber their weapon off-screen - not everything in life is cinematic enough to make good cinema/television.īut this isn’t like weapon maintenance and cleaning. A weapon won’t fire a round if there’s no round in the chamber. If you’ve never picked up a weapon before, you might think guns are ready to jump into bang-bang mode at any moment. This one isn’t specific to just The Walking Dead. Minor non-specific spoilers ahead if you care about spoiler tags. This list is ranked from “Okay, I guess the show creators are taking some creative freedom with that” to “Wait… what? But why… what?” This is called “hanging a lantern” on stretches of the imagination (but it still doesn’t explain the max effective range on a 9mm Glock). Other times the writers throw in a spotlight piece of dialogue, such as when someone gets a headshot on a walker from maybe 500 yards and someone else says, “Wow! That’s impressive!” and they respond with “I wasn’t aiming for that one.” Some things can be hand-waved away by the user being a idiot and no one correcting them in the apocalypse (I’m looking at you, everyone with sh*tty trigger discipline!). However, people who have actually seen a firearm cringe when they see how the weapons are actually portrayed. Not everyone can be a bad ass with a crossbow or katana. Makes sense, right? Zombie apocalypse would need plenty of nobodies to pack some heat to survive. One of the key components of the show is the over indulgence of firearms. Luckily we still have The Walking Dead, a great show that keeps fans watching every week because of the fantastic cast of characters living out the zombie apocalypse fantasy we all think about.
Without Rick and Morty, Westworld, or Game of Thrones, Sunday nights are getting fairly thinned out with regards to binge worthy TV shows.