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Originally Posted by riverboatking
I don't see any reason they would need to use real ammo.
surely with the advanced tech they have they can create fake ammo that has the desired effect on hosts without posing any danger to guests.
I think this is where a certain amount of suspension of disbelief has to occur with the show. I think the show (in theory of the show, not necessarily in the actual universe of the show) is laid out like a video game, where everything is pre-programmed based on certain actions happening. If player 1 presses A x happens, if they press B y happens. I think they showed that very well in the first episode (with the can, and different outcomes). The problem is that a certain amount seems improvised, and can be improvised (such as the "deputy" guest shooting the two hosts in an unexpected way). So, I don't think you can realistically answer the question about live ammo at this time. The hosts seem to have guts, and that stuff can be manipulated in a lot of different ways, meaning it's not pre-planned squibs.
Since we're being shown a "real" looking world, it's harder to "believe" the video game type scripted aspects of the programming of the world. For the characters, sure it's easy to get there, but stuff like the can always dropping the same way is "harder" to get to suspension of disbelief. Nolan's other show required a pretty big suspension of disbelief as well, but once you did, it was top notch. It's not hard for me to get past these sorts of issues on this show, but the more you think about them the more it becomes difficult to suspend certain aspects of disbelief.