Why don't they shoot the Wraith in the heads?
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It's easier to aim for the center of mass and that's how most military personal are probably trained to aim and fire their weapons. My old man was a bit surprised when I decided to go for headshots on the first time I ever got to fire a real gun and he was trained for VBSS.
Uhm... I'm talking about shooting Wraith, not humans.
That doesn't make sense. To kill a single Wraith takes emptying the entire clip. How is that not expensive? Not to mention dangerous.
Also, I recall a scene in which Sheppard shoots down a Wraith, then shoots an additional three or four bullets to make sure it's dead, yet he STILL doesn't go for the head.
Squib.
Imaging putting one of those things on an actor's head. Might impact your insurance rates a bit.
Squib.
Imaging putting one of those things on an actor's head. Might impact your insurance rates a bit.
Exactly. Plus that would probably require a stuntman, rather than some lowly extra in a squib vest.
Nope, not anymore. Two to the body, two to the head, is what we do now.
LOL, good answer, works for me.
I agree, they shoulda learned early on that chest shots weren't that affective toward Wraith, and they should have changed their tactics, i.e., headshots. I think they might have done it in the SGU universe, but Atlantis wasn't as gritty as SGU, as someone said, it was actually a bit more family friendly.
Not 100% sure on this but think it's 'illegal' to show a shot to the head in a TV show.
Or at least a fatal shot to the head, a glancing blow that the victim survives after a haircut is acceptable.
Aside from that I've no idea why they don't shoot the Wraith in the head, it would make perfect sense, since they 'regenerate' quickly.
Or at least a fatal shot to the head, a glancing blow that the victim survives after a haircut is acceptable.
Aside from that I've no idea why they don't shoot the Wraith in the head, it would make perfect sense, since they 'regenerate' quickly.
I doout it's illegal, but it's definately not appropriate for a show which only had a PG rating like Atlantis did. Plus on the production side of things showing a head wound is a bit more complicated than simply having someone lay on the ground with their shirt drenched in fake blood.
Worth mentioning, Sheppard did once threaten to shoot a Wraith in the head, but the Wraith complied with his demands. Season 4's Travelers.
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There's a bloody Wraith headshot in the first episode of Atlantis.
And there are naked boobs in the first episode of SG1, so what's your point?
Don't know about tv in general, but I do know that the 1998 Sci-Fi Channel standards and practices forbade head shots. The producers in Sliders season five put a head shot scene into a script to see if Sci-Fi was even paying attention to their production (turns out they weren't).
Well, actually, there was full frontal nudity in the first episode of SG1 not just boobs. Secondly, SG1 was on Showtime in it's early years and it was an entirely different channel with different rules than Syfy. Atlantis was always on the same channel, unlike SG1. So there is no reason why the pilot episode of Atlantis would be different than any other episode.
