I think the idea is suppose to be that those three bars broke away from the 2 adjacent studs cleanly, due to the way they were connected. I agree that the studs on either side should have at least been bend forward or twisted. And They should have at least smashed out the headlights and dented the grill of the van.

There would be no skidmarks if the person never hit the breaks. Maybe he was caught off guard by something and just swerved. And if Carol was leaning a bit forward when they hit, I could see her shoulders or chest coming down and hitting the dash board on impac, or being snapped aggressively against the seat belt. That could explain ecchymosis in that area of her skin.

 

I'm so with you on all of that. I know its fiction but i've been shot down before on the forum for being critical of "reality" but if you dispense with any belief of that and just watch it as TV entertainment

 

It was a terribly executed scene that should have never been aired. Once the producers realized that they could not make it look even close to realistic there should have been a rewrite. We can play the game of naming 101 possibilities with a million to one odds of actually happening in a weak attempt to defend the writers or we can simply say it was a bad scene. I'm just going to say it was a bad scene that completely lacked realism and completely agree with everything the OP said.

 

Another thing I just noticed on rewatching this scene is that one of the walkers was on the ground near the van, instead of on the roof after the fall. It was cut in half, and even though the head and torso were moving forwards almost imperceptively, it had still managed to make it a few feet away from the legs. And it seemed pretty advanced in its deterioration. I wonder if that was suppose to be the guy originally driving the van, and he fell.

Another thing was that I thought Daryl's line "Grady Hospital. The cross cars are from a hospital. Maybe that's where they're held up". It seemed unrealistic that anyone would bother to utter that line while being surrounded by walkers. They could have saved that dialogue for later.

 

Depends though, Derle is concerned where Beth is and he wanted to know what the hospitals name was during that. And as we know our characters aren't afraid of walkers to not utter a few words, specially Derle. Idunno how that would be unrealistic.

 

Well, the walkers were basically on top of him and he was still spouting lines of non-emergent dialogue. Its like Jesus from the comics, he'll be fighting off 11 walkers, some of them grabbing him from behind, while speaking three or 4 paragraphs of well constructed prose. It just doesn't seem natural.

 

I thought that was before they were actually surrounded by the small herd(just walking towards them) and they were just looking for things in the van. It's not like 5 walkers were ontop of Derle as he was telling Carol that lol.

 

No, it happened after they got surrounded, and the walkers were basically on top of them, with the back doors of the van open.

 

Idunno I just didn't think it was farfetched for him to say that right there, plus they were talking fast as they were doing it like they were panicked.

 

haha, maybe, but when I'm surrounded by walkers, I won't be talking about future show plot points.

 

I hear ducktape is a good device for those pesky plot pointers

 

Duct tape is good for everything. You can cure diabetes with it.

 

They used a crane to drop a van straight down on its wheels. There was a behind the scenes clip.

 

the van landing on all 4 wheels was just... awful. Nose first... fine. On its roof ... more likely, but fine. On its TIRES? Not a chance. That's got to rank up there with one of the worst scenes in the entire series.