Your Opinion on Carley's injury.

Ok, first of all, you guys who say it's not an injury but death should just shut up. An injury could be fatally, mortally or slightly wounding. A fatal injury is the same as death. I just used injury cus I don't like being reminded about what happened to her, because I liked her character/personality whatever.

you don't say "Im sorry for his death" to a loved one but you say "Im sorry for his passing." it sounds less grave or whatever.


The point of this thread is: WHAT IS YOUR TAKE ON CARLEY'S INJURY? IS IT REALISTIC FOR YOU? WHY/ WHY NOT?

In other words, do you think her injury was realistic/instant fatal injury could happen due to a shot to the cheek? and a shot there could cause that fatal injury?
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My opinion is that a gunshot to the cheek will not be fatal. It would hurt a lot, and probably pass through your jaw and some blood vessels, but in my opinion, it wasn't that realistic and wouldn't kill instantly. I talked to my dad and he said that it wouldn't be fatal since it did not pass through the brain but would probably puncture some blood vessels, but not kill. It would cause significant injury.

I think so too. A gunshot to the cheek isn't that fatal. What's more is that she was shot while she was facing sideways, not facing lily directly meaning it passed through her other jaw and so it didnt hit the brain. (if carley was facing lilly face to face it might hit some vital parts like maybe graze the brain) Basically, i don't think it could be instant death. Plus, i don't think it's that realistic for her to die instantly without speaking a word. You can see many guys with disformed jaws still very much alive.
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What's your opinion on this? Will it hurt her fatally?

Please respond. :) POSITIVELY. I would respect your opinion, (but i wont if its full of crap and such)
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  • edited January 2013
    You're looking into it too much, despite how realistic it is sometimes it's still just a game. I don't know why people wanted Carley to survive the bullet so much, it's a much more pleasant thought that she departed the world both painlessly and quick rather then slowly die from an obviously fatal wound (by the looks of it there was an exit wound for Christ's sakes).
  • edited January 2013
    CarScar wrote: »
    You're looking into it too much, despite how realistic it is sometimes it's still just a game. I don't know why people wanted Carley to survive the bullet so much, it's a much more pleasant thought that she departed the world both painlessly and quick rather then slowly die from an obviously fatal wound (by the looks of it there was an exit wound for Christ's sakes).

    ^Pretty much this. I'm glad she didn't die by the teeth of the zombie horde, still upset that we couldn't bury her and instead she's just zombie food.

    I don't think that shot should have been an instant kill, but I hope it was. Don't like the idea of leaving her out there alive, she's as good as dead if thats the case! Either through bleeding out or through zombies who would be attracted to the smell.
  • edited January 2013
    it wasn't that realistic and wouldn't kill instantly.

    thanks for my question i have asked but people replied - and things like and dougs alive too... because i couldnt phrase it in a way in a THREAD i made saying did the shot kill her instantly or did she bleed to death or did walkers get her - suffering... thanks!
  • edited January 2013
    she got shot right in the head (albeit not dead center but that's not relevant) and fell dead instantly. don't know why you want to discuss her "injury". It was a fatal shot resulting in immediate death.
    Believe me, I have played the game roughly 7 times (due to need for video-footage), I have seen that scene more than enough. It wasn't her cheek.

    Edit: My proof the shot penetrated her brain thus resulting in immediate death:

    #1 Gif of the shot
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    #2 first frame when the bullet hits carley (notice the lightning on the left of her, you can see the angle)
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    #3 frame of bullet hitting carley with arrows representing the flight path of the bullet, human brain for reference:
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  • edited January 2013
    It wasnt a headshot its clearly shown in the face
  • edited January 2013
    aaron1290 wrote: »
    It wasnt a headshot its clearly shown in the face


    Just because it isn't dead-center on the forehead doesn't mean it's not a headshot. Forget your counterstrike experience for 1 second and try looking into a biology book for once.

    By the way edited my initial post with gif and pictures which should make my point pretty clear.
  • edited January 2013
    Frankly, I just think it was shoddy animation rather than intended ambiguity. Nicole Vigil, Carley's voice actress, has confirmed TTG had already planned to off her months before episode 3.

    Carley can still live on in hand canon and fanfic though! ;)
  • edited January 2013
    dubesor wrote: »
    Just because it isn't dead-center on the forehead doesn't mean it's not a headshot. Forget your counterstrike experience for 1 second and try looking into a biology book for once.

    By the way edited my initial post with gif and pictures which should make my point pretty clear.

    Thanks for the images.
    Just to point out, since the bullet hit her cheek and went into the lower side of her brain (forget the name) it is instant death. This video explains well:

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNTCRBArJ38

    edit: opps wrong vid
  • edited January 2013
    Biology, biology everywhere.
  • edited January 2013
    dubesor wrote: »
    Just because it isn't dead-center on the forehead doesn't mean it's not a headshot. Forget your counterstrike experience for 1 second and try looking into a biology book for once.

    By the way edited my initial post with gif and pictures which should make my point pretty clear.

    counterstrike? really? you think every typical person who doesnt learn the The Human Brain Anatomy or mind has not read a single book that has anything to do with biology? thats a very very good opinion right there because if i dont read books on the human mind or dont know how a headshot works that makes you automatically a sad person who plays counterstrike from when they wake up and sleep? i dont even play counterstrike because i think i have better things to do with my life anyway fun fact : Not all the kids in the world are stuck in their rooms playing games and on the computer 24/7 they may be where you are but not around on my street it still isnt all kids locked in their rooms playing on their technological objects we do the most stupidest things we explored some uncut patch of land and we used to run into the woods at school with a group 9-11 year olds i dont think that every person you will ever meet plays counterstrike. I am 100% sure that a kid that knows how to read would have by now. I can write a list of books i have red in the past or am currently reading? im trying to do war and peace right now but i find that a Challenge to me but im sure i can find another book to read. Im not joking if you want a list of books ive read send me a message.
    im learning about Anatomy at school and i dont think my teacher would say - ok kids if you get shot at X and with Z the bullet would hit/miss Y and you would/would not be dead

    lilly is taller than carley so the angle it was coming from lilly should have pointed the gun down a bit anyway because lilly is taller than carley. thats what i have to say on your angle ^^

    and plus she had a 10% chance of living a headshot
  • edited January 2013
    aaron1290 wrote: »
    counterstrike? really? you think every typical person who doesnt learn the The Human Brain Anatomy or mind has not read a single book that has anything to do with biology? thats a very very good opinion right there because if i dont read books on the human mind or dont know how a headshot works that makes you automatically a sad person who plays counterstrike from when they wake up and sleep? i dont even play counterstrike because i think i have better things to do with my life anyway fun fact : Not all the kids in the world are stuck in their rooms playing games and on the computer 24/7 they may be where you are but not around on my street it still isnt all kids locked in their rooms playing on their technological objects we do the most stupidest things we explored some uncut patch of land and we used to run into the woods at school with a group 9-11 year olds i dont think that every person you will ever meet plays counterstrike. I am 100% sure that a kid that knows how to read would have by now. I can write a list of books i have red in the past or am currently reading? im trying to do war and peace right now but i find that a Challenge to me but im sure i can find another book to read. Im not joking if you want a list of books ive read send me a message.


    lilly is taller than carley so the angle it was coming from lilly should have pointed the gun down a bit anyway because lilly is taller than carley. thats what i have to say on your angle ^^

    #1 huge wall of text I am just going to ignore.

    #2 lilly is taller so? Lilly is holding the gun in her HAND and obviously Carley's Head is far ABOVE Lilly's hand, correct? This means the angle of the bullet's penetration goes upwards. It is basic logic. Also I mentioned the lightning.

    And again, unlike you I think I provided more than enough proof by now to completely, and utterly destroy your argument in every way, shape and form.
  • edited January 2013
    Pointless arguments, pointless arguments everywhere.

    At the end of the day Carley's dead and it doesn't matter what the specifics are nor the logic behind it. I'm telling you now Telltale didn't take in account the "angles" nor the "specific locations of the brain." They just wanted to show Carley getting shot in the head, which usually means (unless you're some kind of nitpicker) that they are dead.
  • edited January 2013
    dubesor wrote: »
    #1 huge wall of text I am just going to ignore.

    #2 lilly is taller so? Lilly is holding the gun in her HAND and obviously Carley's Head is far ABOVE Lilly's hand, correct? This means the angle of the bullet's penetration goes upwards. It is basic logic. Also I mentioned the lightning.

    And again, unlike you I think I provided more than enough proof by now to completely, and utterly destroy your argument in every way, shape and form.

    no, no, no you read that.
  • edited January 2013
    She's dead Jim.

    She got shot in the head in a setting where civilization has collapsed and there are no hospitals. While people and do occasionally survive being shot in the head, those people also benefited from immediate medical attention and surgery.

    Even *if* Carley wasn't killed immediately, there was no saving her.

    I'm certain however that Telltale intended for Carley to have been killed instantly by that shot, before her body even hit the ground. Otherwise the group wouldn't have just left her there to get consumed while still living by zombies. They would have likely finished the deed.
  • edited January 2013
    Dammit. Someone posted the Game Theory link first. But, yeah. Click on that link. It pretty well explains it. If she was shot in the forehead, or some other part of the head, she would probably survive. However, she wasn't. If by sheer accident, or TellTale doing it's research, they made the bullet hit on of the few places, travelling at the right angle, to hit the section of the brain that you could NOT get up from.
  • edited January 2013
    Carley's dead.
    As in, her brain is destroyed and she isn't coming back in any form.
  • edited January 2013
    anonymau5 wrote: »
    If she was shot in the forehead, or some other part of the head, she would probably survive.

    Huh? So you are saying if I put a gun right on your forehead and blast your brain, you would survive? Link please, sounds hilariously illogical but I am open to read that.
  • edited January 2013
    dubesor wrote: »
    Huh? So you are saying if I put a gun right on your forehead and blast your brain, you would survive? Link please, sounds hilariously illogical but I am open to read that.

    Not what I said. I said, from that distance, with Lilly being completely insane, she might survive. People do survive from headshots. It happens ALL the time. There is one part of your brain that cannot be damaged, but all of the rest of it can be damaged and you might get away with just brain damage. However, if Carley survived, she would be completely changed. If not mentally disabled, or put in some sort of coma, it would completely change her personality.

    Link was already posted, but whatever.

    http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QNTCRBArJ38
  • edited January 2013
    anonymau5 wrote: »
    Not what I said. I said, from that distance

    Your "source" says 'point blank'.(1:04). Anyhow I saw it and yea, not very likely to survive a headshot. 90% of people who receive headshots are immediately dead, the ones that manage to somehow survive wind up with major brain damages and can't live without a lifetime support of others.

    So, even if carley would be one of those very rare cases (she wasn't btw) of surviving with a brain damage, she wouldn't be able to survive at all, let alone in a zombie apocalypse.
  • edited January 2013
    dubesor wrote: »
    Your "source" says 'point blank'.(1:04). Anyhow I saw it and yea, not very likely to survive a headshot. 90% of people who receive headshots are immediately dead, the ones that manage to somehow survive wind up with major brain damages and can't live without a lifetime support of others.

    So, even if carley would be one of those very rare cases (she wasn't btw) of surviving with a brain damage, she wouldn't be able to survive at all, let alone in a zombie apocalypse.

    I didn't say that it was very likely, or at least, I didn't mean to convey that message. I agree that Carley is dead. I hope that TellTale doesn't bring her back. That would be so stupid. I mean, even if Carley somehow survived, us running into her in the next game would just seem like a bad Retcon.
  • edited January 2013
    Even if it didn't hit the brain, shes dead. When you leave the scene, there are 2 walkers approaching the RV.
  • edited January 2013
    After what Phineas Gage survived, namely a giant railroad spike penetrating his skull, it's certainly not impossible that Carley would live. Implausible, but not impossible.

    However, I doubt she or Doug are coming back for practical and thematic reasons. Lee is gone now, so any interactions with a new protagonist would have little meaning, and without medical help such as Gage received I can't imagine her surviving. And anyway, an injury like that can damage your personality severely depending on what part of the brain it hits. She would likely behave erratically, at least for a number of years, at best.

    I would love to have her, Ben, and Kenny back, besides Omid and Christa (whom I never doubted would survive from the moment I saw them), but it's just not happening. It's just too implausible.
  • edited January 2013
    I like the way Ben and Kenny give zero fucks about what is happening in those pictures.

    But she got shot in face. A bullet to the face is going to need immediate attention, and they didn;t have that. Where was the exit wound? For all we know the bullet ricocheted off a skull fragment and went straight into her brain. Or maybe it's still lodged in her face somewhere. The fact that she doesn't move at all after hitting the dirt suggests that she is most likely dead. Even if (huge if, by the way) she survived the actual shot, she's going to die from perhaps bloodloss, or even walkers finding her while she's out. That's not even including the brain damage that she most definately sustained from getting shot. Even if she wasn't dead immediately, there is zero chance of her survival.
  • edited January 2013
    Even if she somehow survived, there's no way she would receive immediate medical attention.
  • edited January 2013
    Rock114 wrote: »
    I like the way Ben and Kenny give zero fucks about what is happening in those pictures.

    But she got shot in face. A bullet to the face is going to need immediate attention, and they didn;t have that. Where was the exit wound? For all we know the bullet ricocheted off a skull fragment and went straight into her brain. Or maybe it's still lodged in her face somewhere. The fact that she doesn't move at all after hitting the dirt suggests that she is most likely dead. Even if (huge if, by the way) she survived the actual shot, she's going to die from perhaps bloodloss, or even walkers finding her while she's out. That's not even including the brain damage that she most definately sustained from getting shot. Even if she wasn't dead immediately, there is zero chance of her survival.

    Normally bulltest don't stay in peoples head. Most likely she had a huge hole on the backside... But there is a phenomenon on TV-Ropes which describes this, but I don't finde this. Its a narrative device.
  • edited January 2013
    Bullets can get lodged in someone's head. The fact that it may have exited the other side of her head means nothing, other than that she likely has a bit of her brain splattered on the roadside next to HER CORPSE.
  • edited January 2013
    Guys she's already cut off the game, this is pointless really.
  • edited January 2013
    it just kinda is unclear whether or not you can save her though. ive tried every possible way, looked at every forum as to if i can save her or not. but its quite clear that i cant. but depending on what choices you make when this is all going down, the game tells you "carley will remember that" now in my head im going "well why would they tell me this if there wasnt a way to save her" but i guess its just to chase away any suspicion that she would die in literally 2secs after...
  • edited January 2013
    aaron1290 wrote: »
    you think every typical person who doesnt learn the The Human Brain Anatomy or mind has not read a single book that has anything to do with biology?

    Looks like you haven't read a book on punctuation either! Haha! Grammar Nazi initiated!
  • edited January 2013
    it just kinda is unclear whether or not you can save her though. ive tried every possible way, looked at every forum as to if i can save her or not. but its quite clear that i cant. but depending on what choices you make when this is all going down, the game tells you "carley will remember that" now in my head im going "well why would they tell me this if there wasnt a way to save her" but i guess its just to chase away any suspicion that she would die in literally 2secs after...

    It was actually explained in an interview. Lee really didn't think Carley would get her head blown off two seconds later, so the game went on as normal saying "Carley will remember that" so that the player, along with Lee, wouldn't see it coming.
  • edited January 2013
    I'm pretty sure she's dead. Lilly got her right in the face. She wasn't moving after she fell. We didn't move the body and there were walkers around. She ain't comin' back.
  • edited January 2013
    Got to say im not really sure i buy the she had a comparatively nice death thing. Painless sure, but also meaningless and without a chance to say goodbye. I'd want to know rather than just *snap* gone.

    As for her chances...yeah you could tell by the way they looked at her. Dead before she hit the ground. RIP.

    Still, I WANT TO BELIEVE.
  • edited January 2013
    JakeSt123 wrote: »
    Looks like you haven't read a book on punctuation either! Haha! Grammar Nazi initiated!

    NOooooOoooo... * Falls into abysall hole *
  • edited January 2013
    To parafrase stand up comic Reginald D Hunter "She Dead"
  • edited January 2013
    Science has proven that she is in fact dead. Why do you all keep up this pointless charade? She's gone. Get the fuck over it.
  • edited January 2013
    Boom headshot. :'(

    I'm glad she got a fast and painless exit. Just imagine if she HAD survived it, that would have been fucked up and horrible. :(
  • edited January 2013
    ;)

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  • edited January 2013
    Demopan wrote: »
    Get the fuck over it.
    I see what you did there...
    But yes please get over it
  • edited January 2013
    If you really wanna make sure, shoot a girl like that IRL and try.
  • edited January 2013
    ;)

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    Doug was shot in his nape, wasn't he?
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