Quote - Great, the lasers in star wars use a bolt not a continuous beam, but that is just nitpicking.

This is an example of the dilemma between an onlooker remembering closely consecutive related events as simultaneous, and photographic exactness, A text description, and an onlooker's member, would likely be "The squad fired as it advanced" or similar.

Similar was discussed in a book "How to draw comics the Marvel way" that I have: in it, a frame from the comic "Roy of the Rovers" (about a fictional football club) shows a goal being scored and spectators cheering, i.e. the way a spectator would likely remember the event; but a photograph of a real football goal being scored shows the spectators impassive, because the camera exposure was over before the spectators could show visible signs of reacting.