[Zebedee DuBois]

Originally Posted by siberian khatru

Question:

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I thought the Carl shooting the kid scene was ambiguous. I didn't think the kid was putting down the gun fast enough -- that he was calculating "Hmmm, one-legged old man, little boy ... I might take my chances." So I totally thought Carl did the right thing. Did everyone else see that ambiguity? Obviously Herschel didn't. It WAS supposed to be ambiguous, right?

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I think that may be the product of some squeamishness about showing a child shoot another person. But mostly, I think it supposed to be, as you said, a bit ambiguous. Leaving it up to the viewer to decide whether it better to retain some humanity from the former civilized time, or to be ruthless in the new z-era