Baseado em The Talking Dead depois do episódio, eles esclareceram o que aconteceu.
A bala olhou Carl, e as lascas do osso quebrando causaram danos secundários aos olhos.
Nenhuma penetração interna da bala.
Nenhum trauma cerebral. Período. Então, nenhum dos disparos contra as estatísticas do cérebro é importante.
"The bullet kind of catches that bone as it comes down right above your cheekbone,” Nicotero, who has a background in pre-med, explained. “The reality of whether [Carl] would be able to survive that or not was something that was important. We still simulated the fact that it nicked that bone. What we’re seeing is … is that’s why the bullet didn’t go in, but it hit that bone and sort of shot outward. When we did the initial sculptures Robert was very specific about making sure that we had remnants of what the artwork from the comic looked like."
As pessoas ficam com o rosto raspado o tempo todo. O tratamento inicial é mínimo, basicamente removendo os chips e a prevenção de infecções, os acompanhamentos podem ser necessários para cirurgias plásticas / reconstrutivas a fim de consertar qualquer coisa cosmética.
Dito isto, existem reais exemplos de vida de tiros reais através de a cabeça sem efeitos colaterais. (vários exemplos de sobreviventes de traumas cerebrais induzidos por armas de fogo)
[Dr. Arno Fried, the neurosurgery chairman and chief of pediatric neurosurgery for Hackensack University Medical Center] calls [Stephanie Ayula of Hillside, N.J.] the "miracle girl" who is completely normal neurologically. She will undergo additional operations to get her ready for a prosthetic eye. "She's healed very nicely," he said.
Fried said he doesn't often see young patients with such extensive injuries recover so well. "Depending on the type of injuries, it may be in 15 percent of the cases," particularly when the bullet only grazes the skull or "flakes the bone and barely goes into the brain," he said.