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The whole bus "trick" thing...

posted 8 years ago by Foot_of_Davros
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Can anyone clarify if maybe I missed something re that bus caper:-

The naughty Mexican drugs chaps turned up and, if I recall correctly, it was edited to show them shooting a path through the walkers to the safety of the bus and other side pretty quickly.

Then the old bitten dude sneaked out and drove the bus forward leaving a gap in the fence, which allowed the walkers through.

The naughty chaps were then 100% overwhelmed by the exact same group of walkers they'd previously passed through (almost like they weren't even there)?

Is that correct? Or did I miss additional walkers being funnelled in from somewhere else maybe?

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[–] ElijahFra 8 years ago

Yeah... Just poor writing. Or executed poorly? It made no sense that ALL of the armed men who were gang members, who had been surviving the apocalypse for this long, were wiped out by a couple dozen zombies... Maybe their guns attracted more zombies? I feel this scene wasn't shown for a reason. There was no way to show it and make it believable... So they just had them all die off screen.

[–] VagabondNomad 8 years ago

Given all the completely nonsensical writing on this show, the absurdity of that scene is just another example why these writers should be fired, and maybe given jobs bussing tables. Or maybe mowing lawns. But nowhere near anyplace that writes scripts.

[–] icetom 8 years ago

if you look closely, just after the gang passes the bus (when they show the whole hill), there are 2 non-infected people on the hill moving at the same speed as the group. they are well above the gang-group, so they must be other people. I find it interesting that noone adresses this.

yes the bus scene was bs, i also wonder where did the infected guy hide. Also, it was quite weird that suddenly it seems that this bus is a huge chokepoint, which has never been adressed before.

[–] Foot_of_Davros 8 years ago

there are 2 non-infected people on the hill

Ha - had to rewatch two or three times to spot them, but you're right 👍

Maybe a more convoluted plot to herd walkers in was cut then, or perhaps just a filming error not spotting these guys in the background...

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[–] Philip_90 8 years ago

Once the zombies invaded the area there wasn't a whole much the could have done against the zombies, remember, they had guns and ammo isn't infinite nor were they aware that if they covered themselves with zombies' blood they wouldn't become a target anymore.

Plus, their leader was a huge jackass.

[–] tmontyb 8 years ago

Once the zombies invaded the area there wasn't a whole much the could have done against the zombies, remember, they had guns and ammo isn't infinite

Thank you!!

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[–] jptrugger-84-585771 8 years ago

Yet the could have created a fully defensible bottleneck position up those stairs, dropping walkers who would increasingly create a natural barrier as the bodies pile up. Or simply retreat to some other defensible structure like the pharmacia.

[–] KahlanV 8 years ago

Yeah that only makes sense if they were stupid, have no other weapons like knifes/bladed weapons, and yeah they did not know about the trick....and that was the case that's all.

[–] kinsayder 8 years ago

nor were they aware that if they covered themselves with zombies' blood they wouldn't become a target anymore.

Even if they weren't aware, which seems unlikely given that they'd been meeting people who used the blood camouflage trick, how did Nick know that they didn't know? His whole plan to wipe out the gang depended on them not knowing.

[–] Philip_90 8 years ago

They relied on other humans to get what they needed so the whole zombie-ism matter was probably new to them.

[–] Foot_of_Davros 8 years ago

Once the zombies invaded the area there wasn't a whole much the could have done against the zombies, remember, they had guns and ammo isn't infinite

I think this maybe misses the point somewhat of what I was saying in the OP.

Yes, ammo isn't infinite. Yes, they might not know the blood trick (although, as others have pointed out, they really should given Nick constantly arriving covered in blood). My point was that the situation is pretty much exactly the same as when the walkers started coming towards them when they needed to get to the bus in the first place.

You should rewatch that scene. These dudes were probably the most efficient I've seen any group deal with a herd of walkers on either show - a few well places head shots and they zipped right through them to the bus...

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[–] CharlotteGoldenblatt 8 years ago

That whole scene was ridiculous. There's no way to explain it other than poor writing. Others have already pointed out some of the obvious:

1. With all the ammos, how did they get wiped out? Like WIPED OUT?
2. Why didn't they use other weapons like knives and bricks to stab the walkers' heads?
3. Why didn't they use the camouflage trick to escape?
4. Why didn't they hide in one of the trailers?

I'll just pretend that some of the gangsters escaped successfully, instead of them all being dead. The ones we saw, like Marco, were just a few of them that weren't so lucky.

Also, how the heck was the bus still functioning after all this time? It still had gas? It looked like it was a broken down bus. Unless he didn't turn the engine on and just loosened up the brakes but still doesn't make the bus move forward.

[–] KahlanV 8 years ago

1. I think that there was supposed to be way more infected than we can see on screen, and yeah they ran out of ammos, could happen.
But yeah they were wiped out pretty fast, they could have regulate the infected flows a bit and hold up a bit behind close doors.....maybe they did, just need to check the time frame....
But that would not have been "fun" I guess

2.Maybe they did not have bladed weapons (weirdly), or they did used them, until....they got outnumbered.....

3. They probably did not know about the camouflage trick, the family just told them about the way in, but not that part;....or they felt overpowered with a bunch of guns, they do not seem to be pretty clever

4.answered that

[–] Tastentier 8 years ago

As soon as they were inside, they celebrated by firing their assault rifles in the air and presumably emptying their magazines. I suppose that was a weak attempt to make their deaths a little more plausible.

It's still ridiculous because there were plenty of buildings to hide in and roofs to climb on. And how come they didn't know the walker blood'n'guts disguise trick, when the people they traded with always arrived covered in goo?

[–] sevenlilxenos 8 years ago

Once everyone agreed to leave and they knew the Narcos were coming it would have been fun if they had rigged up some booby traps like when they entered the pharmacy and stepped on a rug they fell down into a spike pit unless of course they had some type of explosives to wire up on the doors.

[–] edm18 8 years ago

I forget exactly, but did they show the entire gang turned? I know they showed the leader and that other guys brother, but it seemed ambiguous whether or not the rest of the gang got away or were still hiding.

Maybe those two who were bit decided to be stupid and make a run for it or tried to fight there way out?