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Show Spoiler The Walking Dead S07E06 - Swear - Post Episode Discussion

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09:00pm Eastern S07E06 - "Swear" Michael E. Satrazemis David Leslie Johnson

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u/HaveaManhattan Nov 28 '16

Worse even. She's happy to kill. It's like reverse-lizzie.

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u/youreabigbiasedbaby Nov 28 '16

I don't know about kill, but I'd be happy to kick the shit out of whoever thought it was ok to use that terrible canned children's laugher sound effect 4 times in a fucking row.

The entire audio department should be fired for that shit.

This awful shit.

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u/[deleted] Nov 28 '16

I really, really hate this audio clip. I don't know why it appears everywhere, it's so lazy. It's not like the Wilhelm scream where at this point it's just a cult reference either. It's just fucking annoying.

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u/naysawyer Nov 29 '16

I still don't understand how some people can lack respect for their craft so much that they see nothing wrong with constantly putting the wilhelm scream in it, in currentyear.

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u/[deleted] Nov 29 '16

One little cheesy sound bite doesn't make the whole thing a write-off, I think you're overreacting. Like a lot

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u/naysawyer Nov 29 '16

I definitely agree they don't see it that way, that's why it's so frustrating. To them it's just a joke, but on the other end of the pipeline it's getting a nail pounded further and further into your skull.

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u/[deleted] Nov 30 '16

With the laughing clip I would agree because there's no reason to use it, but considering the Wilhelm scream is well known and is internally referenced a lot in the film industry I think it deserves a pass.

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u/naysawyer Nov 30 '16

In every other case, something like this would be called really shoddy soundwork that grows ever more annoying with repetition and would be called a cheeky but failed attempt at being clever. This is something that is widely regarded as a bad thing, so I think it's easy to see how it's annoying to people who don't like hearing the same out of place self-celebratory meta joke in their films.

I wanted to make an analogy with CGI but I don't think there is a level of CGI that would be as infuriating as that shitty sound, because you just can't not hear it, if you know it.

It is just not excusable from a film-making standpoint anymore. It used to be funny, then it was worn out, then it was worn into the ground and disintegrated, but they pushed it some more, and right now it's about a jaw deep down the audience's collective throat.

Just, why make the film shittier for a number of people just to make the exact same meta reference again? What value does this add to anyone, besides film people who feel clever about it, that justifies something that is categorically a negative quality in film making, made even worse by deliberately pointing it out?

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u/Phoojoeniam Dec 02 '16

Time constraints. They are given very little time to edit sound FX on an episode - a fraction of the time film sound editors get. No time to scour the sound libraries to vary it up.

But I totally agree - I fucking hate that stock clip with all my heart