Talk:The Walking Dead - Season 3

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Carol Peletier (Melissa McBride) fires the rifle from a watchtower in "Seed" (S3E01).

When did Carol get that gun? Excalibur01 (talk) 23:37, 17 October 2012 (EDT)

I was wondering that too. One of the plausible explanations is that they grabbed it when raiding houses at the beginning of Season 3. --AdAstra2009 (talk) 00:06, 18 October 2012 (EDT)

Same thing with the M4A1. They didn't have it at the end of Season 2, so they most likely grabbed it when raiding houses. Same could probably be said for the Vektor CP1 as well. -- Antediluvial (talk) 13:53, 18 October 2012 (EDT)

I would agree that Carol's WASR-10 UF and other guns we have seen lately on TWD were likely acquired as a result of the group's scavenging efforts in private homes after they fled Hershel's farm at the end of Season 2. Perhaps Rick also decided to have his group rummage through a storage locker rental facility or two. (Watch TWD's "Cold Storage" webisodes if you have not yet.) Even though the facility's rules might prohibit the practice, there are some people who have kept their firearms and ammunition in their rented storage lockers anyway. A zombie apocalypse will not change this, which in turn could be beneficial to survivors in the know about such things.

As I have posited in a previous IMFDB forum post, TWD is set in Georgia. In real life, Georgia is a pro-gun "red" state that is simply chock-full of guns and gun owners, and not just the "Elmer Fudd" types of long guns normally used for hunting, either. This is especially true in the rural areas of Georgia. Even the Walmart stores there carry Colt AR-15's and Ruger Mini-14's. Despite all of this, the "Elmer Fudd" types of long hunting guns were all that there seemed to be available to Rick's group during Season 1 and 2 of TWD as they stayed in the greater Atlanta area. Some members of the group seemed to be rather anti-gun, too, but now it seems that such attitudes towards guns, along with the group's apparent lack of tactical firepower, is all going to become a distant memory as Season 3 unfolds.

So anyway, I own a WASR-10 myself; mine had solid wood furniture and a non-folding stock when it was shipped to the dealer from Century International Arms. I have not yet seen any of the WASR-10 series come from the factory with a tactical handguard with rails on it. A handguard such as this is what appears to be on Carol's WASR-10 UF. Being that Carol's WASR-10 UF was tricked out like this when we first saw her firing it, this would lead me to believe that this gun was formerly a part of some local resident's private gun collection or whatever. Kepiblanc (talk) 15:49, 18 October 2012 (EDT)

Questionable Production Values

Am I the only one who was just laughing their ass off at the low production values of the shootout in the prison yard? No cycling actions, no recoil, no muzzle smoke, it's un-freaking-believable. If you don't want to have to train all the actors with firearms and just CG it for time's sake, fine; but if preteens on YouTube can do a better job with VFX for free, AMC has no viable excuse for that crap. Come on, AMC...

The budget was slashed after the first season, with some saying it was cut by 20%. (And please sign your posts.) --Funkychinaman (talk) 21:51, 17 October 2012 (EDT)

The budget is small enough as is, I can imagine the special effects (ie makeup and the like) and locations and all that take up the majority of the budget, then they have the actors. I didn't really mind the courtyard shootout that much.Bristow8411 (talk) 14:00, 18 October 2012 (EDT)

I'm sure alot of that could be chalked up to the safety of the actors/extras, too. If I remember right, the fight was pretty close in.