15 Most Annoying Mistakes You Never Noticed In The Walking Dead
Don’t dead open inside.
The Walking Dead boasts hordes of plot-hungry fans, but with millions of watchers come the eagle-eyed diehards and pedantic nit-pickers ready to pick apart each episode to it is very bones, pointing out every issue from continuity blunders and factual errors to things that just don’t make any !*$% sense at all.
Of course, The Walking Dead isn’t the only programme to fall on the lackadaisical side of things when it comes to catching mistakes before they air – there are corners of the internet dedicated solely to pointing out blunders like this in movies and TV shows.
There’s also the argument that The Walking Dead is set in a zombie apocalypse. If we can suspend our disbelief enough to believe that, then surely we can overlook the odd mistake or two?
On the other hand, they can only take artistic licence so far and make excuses for shoddy continuity and fact checking for so long. Plus, it’s also kind of fun to pick apart your favourite shows.
We all know some of the bigger blunders The Walking Dead has let pass in its seven-season run – like the water drinking zombie extra in the inaugural TWD episode, and whoever thought that crappy CGI deer in Season 7 was ever a good idea.
But we’re here to pick apart the perhaps lesser known mistakes: disappearing bra straps, wandering tattoos, and how on earth Carl is still alive.
15. Andrea’s Suicide & The Phantom Shell Casing
Episode: Welcome to the Tombs (S3, E16)
For fans not so taken with the TV version of Andrea, who went from badass in the comic books to an unlikable lass that shacked up with not one but two psychos (Shane and The Governor) on screen, her death in Season 3 probably came as a relief.
But for the nit-pickers and gun fanatics amongst us, her death scene didn’t sit so well. Not because she died, but because it was full of inaccuracies.
After she’s bitten by a reanimated Milton and found by Rick and Co, Rick gives her his trusty Colt Python revolver to finish the job before she too becomes zombified. After Andrea offs herself there’s a bittersweet tinkle of a shell casing hitting the floor, but there’s just one problem with that – revolvers don’t typically eject shell casings unless the gun-toter in question does it manually, which dead people can’t usually do.