I read a theory on the Breaking Bad subreddit that the Nazis might not be trying to kill everyone in the gun battle. Maybe they're just trying to assert some dominance and force Hank and Gomie to surrender. Who knows.
Personally, I think the gun fight seems inept because of editing. This season, the crew has played around a lot with time. We've jumped back in time probably at least once an episode. It wouldn't surprise me if the whole thing seemed really long and drawn out with no fatal shots because we keep seeing scenes that are happening all at the same time. We see Todd and his uncle blasting away. We see Gomie with his bad ass shotgun and Hank ripping off shots with is pistol (or revolver, or hand gun, or tiny big gun, whatever you gun geeks want to call it). We see Walt rolling around in the car seat with glass shattering all around him losing his glasses. We see Jesse struggling to get out of the car and escape to safer spaces. All of this is happening simultaneously but there's no way for the viewer to see it all without editing the scenes together as it is. The whole thing ends up feeling more drawn out than it actually is and we'll see that next week.
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